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ANALYSIS: As Nigeria advances quest for national database, concerns remain Nigeria established the National Identity Database (NIDB) in 2007 to integrate all identity documents into the National Identification Number (NIN) When Kano Pillars shared pictures of their new player, homeboy Ahmed Musa, 28, at the training ground flanked by 25-year-old defender Abdullahi Musa, many accused the latter of being older than he claims. Ahmed Musa and Abdullahi Musa They arguably had fair reasons to doubt as accusations like this are not new. In fact, age falsification in football is so commonplace in N...

Synopsis COAI, which represents telcos Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, said that apps don’t have any obligation to ensure privacy, while telcos need to adhere to strict conditions on confidentiality and protection of privacy of communication. Getty Images Carriers have cited examples around data privacy and lawful interception among several others to point out the absence of a level playing field. Mumbai: Telcos have cited WhatsApp’s recent privacy policy changes as an example of how over-the-top (OTT) communication players, or apps, have no obligation to ensure privacy of ...

2 min read By IGHODALO EMIATOR A public hearing to legalize the interception of all phone conversations by Nigerians has been heard by the National Communications Commission (NCC). According to Dr. Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, the motive of the proposed regulation is designed to protect the citizens considering the high level of insecurity in the country. At the interaction that held recently, participants at the forum refuted against certain provisions of the proposed law. They expressed fears on infringement on the fundamental rights of the citizens as those in charge ...

(Image by Democracy Now) Though WikiLeaks founder will not be extradited to the U.S., the America-led war on the press goes on. In an exclusive interview with Brazilian journalist Edu Montesanti, Chomsky strongly opposes Washington’s accusation, that the Australian journalist poses a threat to American security: “ The persecution of Assange is politically motivated“ By Edu Montesanti British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has blocked Julian Assange’s extradition from the U.K to the U.S., last January, the 4th. She found that because U.S. prison ...

CONSIDERING THE LEGAL TENABILITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW SIM REGISTRATION RULES On November 7, 2011, the Federal Government of Nigeria passed the Communications Commission ("Registration of Telephone Subscribers") Regulations 2 which required mobile phone subscribers to allow their finger prints and a biometric map of their faces to be collected and registered to their SIM cards, which are then stored in a central government database. Subsequently, on December 9, 2020, the Nigerian Communications Commission ("NCC") issued a directive for the suspension of new SIM registration by network ...