MultiChoice Nigeria Limited

Administrative fine imposed. NDPC, 6 July 2025.

Record ID: ng-ndpc-2025-0004
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Regulator: NDPC
Type: penalty notice
Date decided: 6 July 2025
Respondent type: private
Sector: media
Violations: intrusive and disproportionate processing, cross-border transfer without consent, processing of non-subscriber data, unauthorised access to sensitive data
Provisions cited: NDPA 2023
Outcome: administrative fine imposed
Penalty: NGN 766,242,500 (≈ USD 501,000 at the decision date)
Status: final
Source: Official document ↗
Record verified: 14 March 2026

Summary

The NDPC fined MultiChoice Nigeria N766.2 million for intrusive data processing, unauthorised cross-border transfers, and failure to obtain subscriber consent. The investigation began in the second quarter of 2024 after allegations of surveillance and data misuse; the company's remediation efforts were deemed unsatisfactory, triggering the enforcement order.

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Cite this decision

NDPC (Nigeria), MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, penalty notice of 6 July 2025. African Data Protection Enforcement Tracker, Law Lab Africa Research, https://research.lawlab.africa/tracker/nigeria/ndpc/2025/multichoice-cross-border-fine/ (accessed 22 July 2026).

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