DataPro Marks World Data Privacy Day
Nigeria’s biggest Regulatory Compliance Solutions Company and one of the licensed Data Protection Compliance Organizations ( DPCOs) is joining the rest of the world today 28th of January, 2021 to celebrate Data Privacy Day.
The day is set aside every year to raise consciousness about individual’s right to privacy of personal data and the regulatory obligations of those who collect and process personal data.
The issuance of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) in 2019 showcased Nigeria’s commitment to Data Protection and Privacy of its citizens.
To commemorate the 2021 celebration, Mr. Abimbola Adeseyoju, the Managing Director of DataPro Limited, speaks on Nigeria’s effort to drive the Data Protection compliance regime as well as the fundamentals of Data Protection and Privacy in line with the NDPR.
The Federal Government has noted that its efforts in encouraging Nigerians to register for the National Identity Number, NIN, under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy is a strategic and critical effort to ensure that citizens have a credible, converged and consistent database for identity purposes.
Speaking at the Global Privacy Day Celebration, 2021, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, said the value of the registration exercise would become appreciated with the ease at which e-government services would be delivered, the reduction in crime, and general efficiency guaranteed by the database.
According to the Minister, “Identifying every Nigeria is a soft infrastructure needed to achieve our digital economy objective.
Atiku receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
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His media aide, Paul Ibe, confirmed this on his Twitter page.
Atiku, who is currently in Dubai, UAE, received the first shot on January 6.
“H.E @atiku earlier today took his second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
“He had earlier had the first jab on the 6th of January,” Ibe tweeted.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said Nigeria will get its first shipment of the vaccine in February.
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has warned popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to be careful of politicians seeking to hijack his agitations against killer herdsmen in the South West.
The monarch in an interview with Arise TV advised Igboho not to take the laws into his hands but to allow constituted authorities to handle the herdsmen menace in the region.
The Ooni, however, commended Igboho for taking on the campaign against herdsmen, adding that He (Igboho) has done well and the world has heard him, but everything should be done in moderation.
A former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has said that the unfortunate dislikes, attacks and persecution of Fulanis in Nigeria today, was because President Buhari, a Fulani man has woefully failed to protect and provide good governance for Nigerians.
Lamido lamented that, “today, Nigerians are so blindfolded on the hates and apparent dislikes of Fulanis because of President Buhari mis-governance, forgetting that not all Fulani’s even voted for him and or like him”.
He said, “you can see that, myself as a Fulani, I didn’t vote for Buhari and our parties are completely different, but at the same time, the Yoruba’s in Tinubu the Igbos in Ngige and the South South in Ameachi were the ones who firmly stood behind the President to Win, not even the Fulanis.