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ASIRI
About ASIRI

The secret
you protect.

ASIRI is Yoruba for secret. We're a Lagos-based team of operators, lawyers and engineers turning the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 into infrastructure your team can actually run.

Why we exist

Nigerian privacy law deserves Nigerian software.

In privacy operations work, we kept watching the same scene play out: brilliant Nigerian operators stapling European tools to a Nigerian law that didn't quite fit. Audits passed on paper and failed in practice. Templates referenced GDPR articles. Support tickets sat overnight in another timezone.

ASIRI started as a weekend tool to fix RoPA chaos. By 2025 we knew it had to be a product — one built in Lagos, for the NDPC era, with no European tax bolted on top.

We're not a privacy-tech company that translated its docs. We're a Nigerian privacy operator that built the software it always wanted — the Vanta of Africa, NDPA-native by default.

Why now

The enforcement gap is no longer theoretical.

NDPC numbers, public as of 2025. Roughly 30,000 organisations are required to file compliance audit returns and haven't.

₦7.2B
NDPC fines issued since 2023
38,677
Data controllers & processors of major importance
1,368
Default notices in Aug 2025 alone
8,155
Compliance audit returns filed — out of ~38k
Operating principles

What we won't compromise.

Lagos-built.

We sit where the law sits. Our engineers, counsel and support all work Lagos hours — no translated frameworks, no overnight ticket queues.

NDPA-native, by default.

Every screen, schema and prompt was designed against the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and NDPC guidance. Nothing is retrofitted from GDPR.

Evidence over assertion.

Trust is engineered, not claimed. Every action leaves a hash-chained log entry an auditor can verify in one click.

Builders carry the pager.

We ship for the engineers, DPOs and counsel who get the 2 a.m. call when something breaks. Speed and clarity over enterprise theatre.

Who we build for

Operators carrying real NDPA weight.

Tier-1 fintechs

CBN reporting, NDPA Article 65 obligations and consent at scale — one console.

Tier-2/3 fintech & lendtech

Audit-ready in days, not quarters. Launch terms are scoped to your rollout.

HealthTech & HMOs

PHI defaults, lawful-basis maps and DSR portals tuned for Nigerian healthcare.

DPCOs

White-label tenant trees so licensed consultancies can run their book on ASIRI.

The founding team

Operators, lawyers, engineers.

AO
Adaeze Okafor
Co-founder & CEO

NDPA implementation lead for regulated Nigerian teams.

TB
Tunde Bakare
Co-founder & CTO

Built consent and DSR infra at scale before NDPA was law.

IN
Ifeoma Nwosu
Head of Privacy Counsel

Practising NDPA counsel; co-author of two NDPC guidance papers.

SA
Segun Adeyemi
Founding Engineer

Multi-tenant Postgres, RLS, and the audit-log spine.

Timeline

How we got here.

2022

The founding team starts doing NDPA implementation work by hand for regulated Nigerian operators.

2024

ASIRI prototyped inside the consultancy to fix our own RoPA, DSR and breach-clock chaos.

2025

Spun out as a standalone product — repositioned as the Vanta of Africa, purpose-built for NDPA 2023.

May 2026

Invite-only launch access opens for approved design partners.

2027

Target: ISO 27001 certification and a broader DPCO white-label partner channel.

Where we work

Lagos, with hands across the continent.

Yaba, Lagos

HQ, engineering and the DPCO consultancy.

Abuja

Regulatory affairs and NDPC partnerships.

Remote

Engineers across Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.

Trust & security

The controls behind the platform.

ISO 27001

Audit in progress for 2026.

NDPC-licensed DPCO

Operated by ASIRI Compliance Ltd.

AWS af-south-1

Lagos Local Zone available on Enterprise.

Tamper-evident audit log

Hash-chained, signed exports, evidence rooms.

Careers

Join the founding team.

Small team, real ownership, work that ships into a regulator's inbox. If that sounds like your kind of problem, we should talk.

Founding Engineer (Full-stack)

TypeScript, Postgres, RLS — wire compliance into every screen.

Lagos / RemoteApply
Privacy Counsel

NDPA-deep. Co-author the playbooks approved tenants will run on.

LagosApply
DPCO Partnerships Lead

Build the white-label channel with Nigeria's licensed DPCOs.

Lagos / AbujaApply
Talk to us

However you want to reach out.

Registered name
ASIRI Compliance Ltd
Headquarters
Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
General enquiries
hello@asiri.ng