Agency to engage new Nigerian govt on passage of delayed data protection bill

An unnamed official of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau has a told local daily Punch that the agency is planning to open discussions with the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in order to accelerate the enactment process of the country’s Data Protection Bill.

The expectation was that former President Muhammadu Buhari was going to sign the bill into law before he leaves office, but things did not happen that way despite the draft legislation having been okayed by the …

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