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Part 1: Protecting the Rule of Law--- The rule of law is like a greenhouse...

A conversation on Social Jurisprudence (3 minutes read time)...

A Brief Introduction Data is unprocessed facts, figures or numbers. Data, by itself, is meaningless. It is rudimentary and unrefined. For example: 30 years old, Black, Singer, likes ice cream. This is meaningless data that could describe millions of people. It is anonymous and tells us nothing specific. However, gather just a few more details...

A friend, who we’ll call B, tells me that in Germany, everyone receives the option to reject cookies on any website they visit. I’ve never been to Germany (or Europe) so I cannot confirm if this is true. Regardless, what I do know is that here, in the US, we do not receive a pop...

Raise your hand if (before reading the title of my post) you thought Nigeria had no data privacy legislation.  Two weeks ago, both my hands would have been high in the air. To my rescue, I assumed Nigeria probably had some legislation but not a very comprehensive one. And six years ago, I would have...

The federal republic of Nigeria not only has a constitutional right to privacy, it now also has enforceable guidelines that are designed to protect that right in our digital age.  Nigeria’s 2023 Data Protection Act (NDPA) marked the country’s entry into the global data-protection arena. For the first time, Nigerians had legislative clarity on how...

  In the first months of President Trump’s second presidency, I have watched the administration repeatedly test the boundaries of the enumerated powers granted to the executive branch by the U.S. Constitution. While the public reaction to these actions often suggests that President Trump is setting unprecedented constitutional norms, a closer...

Two days ago I read a research paper by Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution, titled “Nigeria in Search of Democracy.” It was written 42 years ago, in 1983: a period when Nigeria’s civilian government under President Shehu Shagari collapsed and gave way to the military rule of General Muhammadu Buhari. Diamond, then a political...

Data localization is any policy or legal requirement mandating that data created within a country’s borders must remain stored and processed within that country. Should Nigeria take steps to ensure that citizen data created within the country remains in the country? For those of you who are familiar with Nigeria’s technology policy, you may already...