The Federal Government has announced a crackdown on unregistered individuals and organizations practicing information technology.
Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, directed the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) to enforce registration requirements, aiming to sanitize the IT sector and ensure only qualified professionals practice.
The CPN will identify and prosecute unregistered IT practitioners, and those found non-compliant will face legal action. The minister emphasized the need for professionalism and standards, expressing concern about the prevalence of quackery in the IT profession.
He urged the CPN to “exterminate quacks and undesirable elements” from the profession, citing the example of other regulated professions globally.
Sununu commended the CPN for its efforts in registering individuals and corporate organisations practising IT, noting that the Federal Ministry of Education, was committed to supporting the council’s enforcement of the Act that established it.
He emphasised the importance of mandatory registration with CPN for all IT practitioners in Nigeria.
“The global practice is for professionals to regulate their profession properly to exterminate quacks and undesirable elements from making incursions into the profession. That is the practice all over the world, and we are in total support of it.
“Therefore, all individuals and corporate organizations that are into information technology practice should register with the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria) to allow for effective regulation of computer education and practice in Nigeria,” he said.
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