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Privacy law and technology in Nigeria: The legal framework will not meet the test of adequacy as mandated by article 25 of European union directive 95/46

Nigeria is one of the biggest and fastest telecommunications markets in Africa and has huge potential for information technology (IT) market growth. With nearly 70 million Muslims (roughly half the population), it is also the country with the largest number of members of the Islamic faith in sub-Saharan Africa. While government policies and public-private initiatives such as ‘Computers for all Nigerians’ may have a significant impact in the mid-term, a relatively low percentage of IT penetration and an unreliable power infrastructure has not fuelled concern about European Union-style data prot…