Silent guardians: The unremarked role of IT auditors

While economists debated and regulators scrambled over the sudden implosion of banks, a small, unheralded community of IT audit pioneers performed a service indispensable to the survival of Nigeria’s financial system—and its economic sovereignty. On 16 January 1998—the “Mass Burial” day—the Central Bank of Nigeria simultaneously revoked the licences of twenty-six banks. Thirty-four institutions we