Digital infrastructure has become critical national infrastructure in Nigeria, forming the backbone of modern governance, financial services, and economic coordination. As the country digitises public services and its economy grows increasingly dependent on interconnected platforms, questions arise about the reliability, resilience, and security of these systems.

Rapid technological development and globalisation have brought new challenges for the protection of personal data. The scale of collection and sharing of personal data has increased significantly. This has been spurred...

The Nigeria Data Protection Act – General Application and Implementation Directive came into effect on 19 September 2025. Notably, with its commencement, the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR)...

The issuance of the General Application and Implementation Directive (GAID) 2025 by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) is a significant milestone in the operationalisation of the Nigeria Data Protection Act...

The UUBO Data Protection Team is pleased to share with you that the Data Protection Bill has now been signed into law by President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has recently published a Guidance Notice on the filing of Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns (CAR)

Data protection compliance has become an integral part of every organisation that collects and processes personal data.

On 20 March 2025, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission published the General Application and Implementation Directive (GAID) 2025 of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) 2023.

The NDPC has extended the deadline for filing 2025 Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns to 30 May 2026.

On 17 August 2026, Nigeria's Federal Government released its National Digital Cloud Policy, superseding the 2019 framework to establish a domestic cloud and data infrastructure ecosystem. The Policy introduces fiscal and regulatory incentives for qualifying investors, mandates cloud-first adoption across government agencies, and implements a four-tier sovereign data classification system that confines data residency requirements to specific categories rather than imposing blanket localisation.

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

In a recent interview, billionaire Femi Otedola allegedly revealed that multiple banks sent "pretty ladies" to woo him for deposits.

Companies in the European Union (the "EU") have been preparing for 25 May 2018, the much anticipated date when the EU's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") became effective.

Artificial intelligence has become relatively common in a variety of industries, and the legal profession is no exception.

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.

The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (the "NDPB") recently established the National Data Protection Adequacy Programme (the "NaDPAP") Whitelist pursuant to section 37 of the 1999 Constitution of the

The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 ("NDP Act") seeks to safeguard the fundamental rights, freedoms, and interests of data subjects as enshrined under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Attention all organizations processing personal data in Nigeria! The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) has extended the deadline for filing the 2023 Data Protection audit report to 30th June 2023.

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.