Data Protection: Nigeria Breaks New Ground With First Privacy Law Report

Nigeria has taken a major step towards strengthening privacy and data protection jurisprudence with the launch of the Nigerian Privacy Law Report (NPLR), a specialised electronic law report dedicated to documenting unreported High Court decisions on privacy and data protection.
The initiative, unveiled by Dr Olumide Babalola, a leading Nigerian privacy s designed to bridge a critical gap in the country’s legal system by making previously inaccessible judicial decisions available to lawyers, judges, academics, regulators and members of the public.
The NPLR, which is free to access electronically, seeks to preserve and promote the development of privacy jurisprudence in Nigeria by creat...