Nigeria’s National Assembly says the Data Protection Bill will be passed into law within 30 days of receiving it from the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

The Chairman Senate Committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Cybercrime, Yakubu Useni, made the promise at a one-day sensitization workshop on data protection organized for members of the national assembly in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Senator Useni explained that since the Nigerian Government created an agency for data protection, hence a need to enact a law to guide its operations.

The Chairman House Committee on ICT and Cybercrime, Abubakar Lado, said that the House of Representatives would expedite action on the bill.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who spoke virtually, harped on the importance of the bill to data privacy and confidentiality.