INTRODUCTION Axiomatically, some countries with humongous levels of energy resources are bedevilled with an excruciating level of poverty, energy deficit problems, deteriorating environment, and corruption to the extent that researchers have termed them as resource-cursed. Academics, political analysts, legal scholars and international institutions have established that the publication of adequate information on how extractive resources […]

As data privacy and protection evolves around the world, Nigeria witnessed its fair share of data privacy and protection innovations in 2023. In this edition of our data privacy and protection newsletter, we have summarized the major events for the year 2023 and also made projections for what promises to be an eventful 2024. For […]

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) in November 2023, published a Guidance Notice concerning annual Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns. The filing of Annual Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns is an obligation for data controllers and processors under the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019, and the enactment of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 brought […]

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. The recently enacted Nigeria Data Protection Act (the Act) 2023, occasioned a modification of the data privacy and protection landscape in Nigeria, and notable among the innovations of […]

From the Bored Apes collection to Jack Dorsey’s auctioned Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) of his first-ever tweet, “just setting up my twttr”, which sold for over US$2.9 million, the creation and sale of NFTs is one that took the world by storm, generating millions for its owners, and establishing a whole new branch of blockchain exchange; […]