AI Governance for Defence & National Security is a specialisation-level, six-week programme for the people who must govern artificial intelligence in the most consequential setting of all — where decisions touch sovereignty, public safety and human life. It builds on management-system fundamentals and applies them to the Nigerian defence and national-security context: the Office of the National Security Adviser, the Nigerian Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and the agencies that protect critical national infrastructure, all operating under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the oversight of the NDPC and NITDA.
The course is about responsible governance and human oversight, not operational tradecraft. It teaches how to assure, audit and hold accountable the AI a defence organisation builds or buys — consistent with international humanitarian law and recognised standards such as ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. By the end you will be able to design governance for high-stakes defence AI, demand meaningful human control, run defence-grade assurance and incident response, and contribute to national AI-security strategy.
For: Defence and security policy staff, military and intelligence officers in governance or oversight roles, ONSA and NITDA personnel, internal auditors, legal advisers on the law of armed conflict, and contractors supplying AI to the security sector.