cross-posted from: https://community.nicfab.it/post/14188

Any day now, Nigerian lawmakers will receive for deliberation a new draft personal data protection bill, after it was recently validated by stakeholders. Ninety million Nigerians are already enrolled in the national biometric identity scheme without adequate data protection legislation in place. The bill that will soon be transmitted to parliament is a reworked version of the data protection bill of 2020 which President Muhammadu Buhari rejected, according to Nigerian media reports. The updated version is proposed by the executive branch.