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Money is essential for the facilitation of virtually everything, including the financing of business growth and development.

Religious leaders routinely receive sensitive personal disclosures during spiritual counselling, creating expectations of confidentiality rooted in faith traditions and pastoral trust. Yet the legal landscape presents a complex web of competing obligations, from safeguarding laws and mandatory reporting requirements to data protection regulations and criminal investigations. This analysis examines how clergy must balance their religious duty of confidentiality against evolving legal obligations that may com

Nowadays, it is not uncommon to receive text messages, calls, etc from digital lending companies popularly ascribed the name "loan apps" ..

Artificial intelligence systems are already processing personal data and making consequential decisions across Nigerian industries, from finance to healthcare. While many assume AI remains unregulated in Nigeria until dedicated legislation arrives, organisations deploying credit-scoring algorithms, automated recruitment tools, and clinical decision-support models may already be subject to binding legal obligations under the country's existing data protection framework.

We are in a world where personal data is more valuable than ever as more organizations require data to drive decisions and improve profitability.

In an age where data collection and processing record a remarkable increase daily, there have been concerns as to how much information should be left online for the public to see.

U.S. companies dominate Nigeria's SaaS landscape. From Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 to Zoom, Salesforce, and AWS, American providers power much of Nigeria's digital economy.

It is without peradventure that the nature of technology use has occasioned a near borderless global society as personal data flows in trillions of bytes across borders.

On January 4, 2021, WhatsApp Messenger ("WhatsApp" or the "Company"), a cross-platform instant messaging application that allows smartphone users to exchange text, image, video and audio messages...

In a reaction to TikTok's various data privacy breaches and likelihood of further breach, a not-for-profit organisation -(Laws and Rights Awareness Initiative) has approached the High Court of Ogun State...

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has announced an extension of the deadline for filing 2025 Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns. The new deadline is 30 May 2026...

The President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday, 12th June 2023 exercised his presidential right of assent by signing the Data Protection Bill 2022 into Law.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (‘the Commission'), on 4th October, 2024, published a press release extending the deadline for the registration...

On 18th May, 2020 the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) issued Guidelines for the Management of Personal Data by Public Institutions in Nigeria, 2020 ("the Guidelines"). The Guidelines govern the roles and ...

On 12 June 2023, the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 ("the Act") was signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. The Act provides a legal framework for the protection...

In recent years, blockchain technology and smart contracts have emerged as revolutionary tools with the potential to reshape the landscape of legal transactions.

In today’s digital environment, data breaches are an operational reality. It could be the result of a sophisticated cyber-attack or an email sent to the wrong person. It is important to note, however, that our data privacy law does not penalise organisations simply for being victims of a personal data breach.