Nigeria: Nigeria faces 480,000 data protection personnel gap — NDPC — Africa Links 24

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission, NDPC, says the country faces a significant gap of 480,000 Data Protection Officers, DPOs, in spite of notable progress recorded in the last three years.

The National Commissioner of NDPC, Dr Vincent Olatunji, said this on Monday during the opening of one-week training for the second cohort of DPOs Training and Certification Programme in Abuja.

Mr Olatunji, however, said the number of certified DPOs in Nigeria had increased from fewer than 1,000 three…