President Bola Tinubu has signed the Data Protection Bill into law which is expected to facilitate the creation of thousands of jobs through the training of data protection officers and licensing of data protection compliance organisations to offer services to data controllers and processors.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Head, Legal Enforcement and Regulations, Nigeria Data Protection Bureau, Babatunde Bamigboye.
The NDPB National Commissioner, Dr Vincent Olatunji, expressed optimism on the prospects of Nigeria’s Digital Economy following the emerging regulatory dispensation.
He applauded the president for renewing the hope of over 200 million Nigerians in the advancement of privacy rights and other fundamental freedoms both in cyberspace and in analogue transactions,
