Highlights of the Nigerian Data Protection Act -General Application and Implementation Directive (NDPA-GAID) 2025

On 20th March 2025, the Nigerian Data Protection Commission (NDPC) issued the Nigeria Data Protection Act – General Application and Implementation Directive 2025 (GAID). The primary objective of the GAID is to provide necessary guidelines and directives on the implementation of the Nigerian Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA). With the issuance of the GAID which …

DEMONSTRATING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NIGERIAN DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

“The NDPR outlined various obligations which an organization must comply with as a way of demonstrating its compliance with the NDPR. These obligations, better described as the ‘Accountability Obligations’ are subsumed in Art. 2.1(3) of the NDPR which provides that “anyone who is entrusted with the personal data of a data subject or who is …