Archive · January 2026
The 4 archive entries on developments from January 2026.
On 30 January 2026 SEC Nigeria issued a public warning against Aurum Bot, an online platform soliciting cryptocurrency investments from Nigerian retail investors without registration or licence.
SEC Nigeria's second public warning of 30 January 2026 named ModMount Services Limited, a CFD broker offering forex, stocks, indices, commodities and cryptocurrency to Nigerian investors, as unlicensed and suspected of fraudulent activity.
At the launch of Ghana's 2026 Data Protection Week on 26 January, DPC Executive Director Arnold Kavaarpuo confirmed that full-scale enforcement under the Data Protection Act 2012 (Act 843) began in January 2026, with unregistered data controllers facing fines and possible imprisonment.
On 26 January 2026, ahead of the 2026 Data Privacy Day Conference in Mombasa, Kenya's ODPC announced it had issued 184 compensation orders to data subjects, against a cumulative docket of 9,061 complaints, 357 determinations, 134 enforcement notices and 20 penalty notices since the Data Protection Act 2019 took effect.
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