NDPC Vows To Start Imposing Heavy Fines In 2025 For Privacy Violations

Starting this year, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has disclosed that it would start imposing heavy fines against businesses that are handling Nigerians’ data otherwise referred to as data controllers and data processors.

The National Commissioner of the Commission, Dr. Vincent Olatunji, made this known in his outlook for the year.

According to him, NDPC up until now has not fined any company but that will start this year as it begins massive enforcement of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA).

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“For data controllers and processors, there is going to be massive enforcement in 2025. We have never issued any fines, but going forward you will hear us issuing heavy penalties,” Olatunji stated.

While noting that the Commission would begin the second phase of its 2023-2027 Roadmap this year, Olatunji said the NDPC would also be creating jobs through data protection experts it trained last year.

According to him, Nigerians will in 2025 start seeing the result of the experts, professionals, and a pool of globally competing human capital that the NDPC has been trying to develop in the data protection ecosystem, which would lead to job creation.

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He added that the Commission would also continue data protection awareness across the country to ensure that Nigerians are aware of their rights.

“There are a lot of data controllers and processors that are looking for people to work with them.

“Now those that we have trained in 2024, those we have certified, we are going to do more this year to actually launch them to the job market where they can really work with data controllers and processors,” the Commissioner said.