The Court of Appeal held that the fundamental right to privacy guaranteed by section 37 of the 1999 Constitution encompasses data protection rights, so that breaches of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 are enforceable as fundamental-rights violations, and found NIMC's imposition of a fee for the rectification of personal data incompatible with the data subject's rights.

The first appellate-level pronouncement in Nigeria to settle previously conflicting High Court authority on whether data protection falls within the constitutional right to privacy, anchoring the NDPR in a justiciable fundamental right. It established a human-rights-based route to enforcing data protection and remains a leading Nigerian authority on the constitutional status of data protection.