Nigeria’s quest to achieving a compliant data protection status capable of securing database rights and indeed all other ancillary intellectual property rights cannot be achieved overnight. Nonetheless, the above issues discussed are cardinal and must be tackled as a first step:
With the decision of Fintech giants Paypal, to restrict foreign payments into Nigeria owing to the prevalence of advanced fee frauds (Yahoo-Yahoo ) in the country, the issuance of a regulation as the NDPR which creates a sense of a protection culture must be applauded albeit with reservations as to the efficacy of its enforcement or the adequacy of its provisions to ensure a stellar data protection status in Nigeria.
Stakeholders within the Nigerian borders, have decried the role, that social media has played in Nigeria’s present social engineering and it is upon this premise, and many before it, that there has been a recent move to enact several laws, or amend existing laws, to provide rigorous measures for the control of the social media space, such as the Hate Speech Bill, And The Social Media Bill and others. We will however examine the existing laws, governing this civilization of social engineering, and make submissions in respect of the above.
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