ICT and Law in Nigeria

Iheanyi Nwankwo

Building AI in Nigeria: Assessing the Legal Terrain for Personal Data Utilization

Iheanyi Samuel Nwankwo Yesterday’s New Telegraph article discussed the development of local Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in Nigeria, outlining initiatives like a national curriculum and scholarships. It also mentioned challenges such as the need for a robust digital infrastructure and suitable policies. While the article briefly mentioned data protection law…

December 30, 2023

Between the Law and the Prophet: Could Artificial Intelligence Solve the Problem of Legal Predictability?

Introduction Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. profoundly influenced our understanding of the law with his insightful observation: “The prophecies of what the court will do…
August 22, 2021

A Kaleidoscopic View on Enforcing the Right to Data Protection in Nigeria

1. Introduction Nigeria has high expectations to enact a data protection law, notably after signing the ECOWAS Supplementary Act on Personal Data Protection of 2010.[1]…
April 4, 2018

NIGERIA’S DATA PRIVACY FIRST RESPONDERS

1. Introduction The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) recently remarked that he also suffers the same menace of invasion of privacy…
January 30, 2017

New book on African Data Privacy Laws

A new book—African Data Privacy Laws (ed) Alex Makulilo— has been recently published by Springer. This volume presents analyses of data protection systems in 20…

I’m Iheanyi Nwankwo, a researcher on IT and IP Law. I am particularly fascinated by Generative AI and how it changes research and learning.