As Nigeria’s digital financial ecosystem grows, regulators, including the CBN, NITDA, SEC, and NAICOM, have increasingly ...

There is no debating that 2023 was the year of artificial intelligence, with AI on everyone’s radar, including Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria. Before 2023, Nigeria didn’t engage much in AI.

Sir: In a significant stride towards safeguarding individual privacy, the Nigerian Data Protection Act (2023), was signed into law by President Bola Tinubu on June 12. This legislation builds upon the ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here. It is already embedded in the daily lives of Nigerians. It curates the Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok feeds we scroll through. It powers the autocorrect and ...

The updated policy did not include an opt-out provision. It was a “take it or leave it” policy. In other words, if users did not consent to the updated terms, they would no longer be able to use ...

Data offers direction. The Nigerian government’s determination to make sure everyone counts through the implementation of national identity number (NIN) is a policy decision in the right direction. To ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, was recently hit with three fines totalling more than US$290 million in Nigeria. The fines were imposed by Nigeria’s Federal Competition ...