The Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja has resolved the $32.8 million privateness dispute between Meta Platforms, Inc. and the Nigeria Knowledge Safety Fee (NDPC) after each events reached an out-of-court settlement.
The authorized dispute between Meta and the NDPC ended after each side agreed on phrases to settle the $32.8 million tremendous earlier imposed on the corporate.
On February 18, 2025, the NDPC fined Meta $32.8 million and issued eight corrective orders for allegedly violating the privateness rights of Nigerian customers by behavioural promoting practices on Fb and Instagram.
At Monday’s proceedings earlier than Justice James Omotosho of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, Meta’s counsel, Fred Onuobia, SAN, knowledgeable the courtroom that the events had signed phrases of settlement dated October 30 and filed on October 31.
“We undertake the phrases of settlement and ask my lord to enter them because the judgment of the courtroom,” Onuobia mentioned.
Adeola Adedipe, SAN, Counsel for the NDPC, didn’t oppose the applying.
Justice Omotosho then adopted the settlement because the courtroom’s judgment and counseled each events for selecting to resolve the matter amicably.
“The phrases of settlement entered by the events in swimsuit quantity FHC/ABJ/CS/355/2025, dated October 30 and filed October 31, 2025, are hereby adopted because the judgment of this courtroom,” the decide dominated.
The choice ends months of litigation after Meta challenged the NDPC’s tremendous and enforcement orders by a judicial evaluation, claiming the company acted past its powers and did not comply with due course of.
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After a number of adjournments to permit for discussions, each side finally reached a mutual decision.
The NDPC’s case in opposition to Meta is one among its main enforcement actions underneath the Nigeria Knowledge Safety Act, signed into legislation by President Bola Tinubu in June 2023, which seeks to strengthen the safety of Nigerians’ knowledge privateness rights.
