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Data Protection and Breach of Privacy: An Analysis of the Legal Regime for Prevention and Punitive Measures in Nigeria

The protection of the right to privacy of individuals in Nigeria is a constitutionally and statutorily enshrined right, which attract remedies in cases of unlawful breach. Accordingly, personal information or data such as names, addresses, health status, gender, Bank verification Numbers among others, are pieces of personal data that must not be unduly exposed, shared or sold by data controllers or processors in custody of such data. Using the doctrinal research methodology, this research critically analyzed Nigeria’s legal and institutional framework on the protection of data and the punitive…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Global Journal of Politics and Law Research
Date	2026-01-01
Type	article
Details	openalex authorships.countries:NG,primary topic.subfield.id:3320\|3321\|3308\|1202\|3303\|3312\|2002\|2000\|2003 + local /\bnige
Found at	https://doi.org/10.37745/gjplr.2013/vol14n45984
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Data Protection and Breach of Privacy: An Analysis of the Legal Regime for Prevention and Punitive Measures in Nigeria. OpenAlex research, 2026. Vero Archive, record openalex:W7210285266.