The National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) as the custodian and regulator of the Nigerian Information Communication and Technology sector , as one of its primary objective, has continued to formulate and implement policies in line with global best pratices geared towards the actualization of the economic digitization goal of the Federal government, as they sought to provide viable grounds for innovators and innovations to strive in Nigeria and globally as well as ensure cyber security for internet users.
It is based on this note, that the need to ensure data protection regulation is put in place to provide privacy in the Cyber space for users. The National Privacy week as an initiative of the Agency under the supervision of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy is aimed at providing an update on where we are in terms of the Data Protection Regulation implementation and highlight projections for 2021.
Speaking at the virtual conference to launch the privacy week on Monday 25th of January,2021, The Director-General/ CEO NITDA, Malam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi said, "NITDA had issued a draft Data Protection Guideline since 2013, with the objective of providing a basic law to guide the use of data in the digital space. However, when the EU GDPR was issued in 2016, the then Director General of NITDA, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, constituted a team to review the draft guideline in the light of global developments and also to provide Nigerians with a practicable law for its implementation. The team made a couple of brilliant recommendations and got necessary assistance from law firms, GDPR consultants and some multinationals that made inputs through the NITDA Rule Making process.

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