On 12 June 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, signed the Nigerian Data Protection Bill, 2023 into law as Nigerian Data Protection Act, 2023 (“the Act”). The Act provides a legal framework for the regulation of personal data in Nigeria, which was hitherto provided for by the Nigerian Data Protection Regulations (NDPR) 2019 under the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Act.