NDPR compliance for Nigerian SaaS — a plain-English primer.
Data residency, consent, and what "Nigerian data centres" actually means for your business. Without the legalese.
The Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) and the newer NDP Act are the main frameworks for how personal data is processed in Nigeria. If your business touches customer PII — names, phone numbers, addresses, BVN, NIN, financial history — you're in scope. And if your SaaS vendor doesn't think about this, you inherit the risk.
What "data residency" actually means
It means the physical location of the servers storing your data. Running in Nigerian data centres matters because transferring personal data out of Nigeria requires an adequacy decision or explicit consent, and most businesses don't want to carry that burden. Local residency is the simplest path.
The three things you need from a vendor
- Clear, written statements of where data lives and who processes it
- A DPO (data protection officer) or documented equivalent contact
- Audit-ready logs — every access, every change, timestamped and retained
Korevra handles all three by default. If you'd like a walkthrough of our data posture with your legal team, book a call.