Nigeria, Oct. 30 -- The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) says it has investigated more than 240 data breach cases and identified over 1,900 organisations for failing to comply with data protection regulations.

Vincent Olatunji, the commission's National Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a two-day capacity-building workshop organised in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute (NJI) for judicial officers.

Olatunji said the commission had also issued more than 20 major remediation orders to strengthen compliance with data protection regulations.

He added that the NDPC had registered over 41,000 data controllers and processors of major importance in the last three years an...