Introduction

As the largest Bar in Africa, the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) understands and appreciates the legal and economic benefits of data protection. The NBA is also mindful of her obligations as a controller of personal information of Nigerian legal practitioners entrusted to her as one of the statutory regulators of the legal profession in Nigeria.

In fulfilling the data protection principles of lawfulness, fairness & transparency and accountability, the NBA has published this privacy policy (notice) to provide concise but understandable information on its data management practices especially as it relates to data protection guaranteed by section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

• processing (i.e collection, use, storage, transmission, modification and other activities relating to personal information) of personal information (personal data) accessed by the NBA through this platform.
• processing of personal data accessed by the NBA through its other digital platforms.
• processing of personal data accessed by the NBA manually or through its numerous activities.

This policy was last updated on 13 June 2022 and subject to further review on a need basis.

About the NBA

The NBA (we, us) is the umbrella body is the non-profit, umbrella professional association of all lawyers admitted to the Bar in Nigeria and a member of all statutory bodies that regulate the Nigerian Bar and Bench. The NBA is Nigeria’s foremost and oldest professional membership organisation and Africa's most influential network of legal practitioners, with over 120,000 lawyers on its roll in 125 active branches across the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. For more information, please visit https://nigerianbar.org.ng/

What personal information do we process?

Since legal practitioners in Nigeria are statutorily bound to register with the NBA upon their enrollment as barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the NBA collects the Supreme Court Number (SCN) from the Supreme Court after issuing it to the legal practitioners.

While (digitally or manually) regulating legal practice in Nigeria, we may collect the following inexhaustive personal data (depending on the activity):

• Your names, sex, marital status, email addresses, telephone number, contact address, financial data, workplace, contact addresses, practice area, social media handles, year of call, date of birth etc
• Your still or motion pictures (as processed by the video conferencing apps) or at live events, your voice, views, opinions, etc
• Medical data when taking advantage of our health insurance scheme

Why do we process your personal information?

Subject to the purpose of processing, we may collect information through our websites or other digital platforms, electronic and paper correspondences, telephone conversations, photo and video cameras, video conferencing software, documents given to us by you or third parties, etc: