{"id":228804,"date":"2026-03-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the-man-who-securely-encoded-africas-digital-future\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:05:11","slug":"men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the-man-who-securely-encoded-africas-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the-man-who-securely-encoded-africas-digital-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Men of March: Prof. OPA \u2014 Nigeria\u2019s first professor of practice in cybersecurity and the man who securely encoded Africa\u2019s digital future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/leaders\/men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the\/gl4tlbl\">Men of March: Prof. OPA \u2014 Nigeria\u2019s first professor of practice in cybersecurity and the man who securely encoded Africa\u2019s digital future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/leaders\/men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the\/gl4tlbl\">https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/leaders\/men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the\/gl4tlbl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-29 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"africa.businessinsider.com\">africa.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n        In the early 2000s, when most Nigerian businesses were still debating whether they needed a website, Obadare Peter Adewale was already thinking about who was trying to break into it. In 2003, he co-founded Digital Encode Limited, an indigenous cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance firm built on the conviction that Africa\u2019s digital economy would need protecting long before the continent fully understood the threats it faced. That conviction, held early and acted upon decisively, is the defining characteristic of a man who has spent the past two decades&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/leaders\/men-of-march-prof-opa-nigerias-first-professor-of-practice-in-cybersecurity-and-the\/gl4tlbl\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men of March: Prof. OPA \u2014 Nigeria\u2019s first professor of practice in cybersecurity and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ocdn.eu\/pulscms-transforms\/1\/e5dktkpTURBXy8xYzViODQ5OTU0MGY4MmU1MTQ0ODY5OGI1OTMzNGE4OS5wbmeSlQMAAc0CAM0BIJMFzQSwzQJ2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228806,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228804\/revisions\/228806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}