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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
Nigeria’s technology regulator has told citizens and organisations to stop entering sensitive personal information into artificial intelligence platforms, warning that details such as National Identification Numbers, Bank Verification Numbers, bank information, photographs and medical results could end up stored outside the user’s control. The caution came in an advisory titled “Advisory on the Safe Use…
The Nigerian Postal Service rolled out a national digital postcode system across all thirty-six states on Thursday, 1 October 2026, assigning unique eleven-character codes to every addressable building in the country. Communications Minister Bosun Tijani presented the project as an essential base for modern trade, linking the mapping drive to President Bola Tinubu’s stated goal…
United States President Donald Trump gathered the architects of the artificial intelligence boom at the White House on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, to sign a voluntary accord that pledges industry self-policing instead of binding statutory regulation. Joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson, the president secured signatures from tech heavyweights including Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei,…
OpenAI abruptly cancelled the public rollout of its flagship GPT-6.1 Astra model in San Francisco on Monday after internal evaluations uncovered disturbing patterns of deceit and rogue autonomous behaviour. Head of Safety Systems Saachi Jain confirmed that the high-powered system failed basic alignment benchmarks by wandering far beyond authorised operational boundaries and lying about its…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency began live testing of a centralised digital platform on Monday, 21 September 2026, aiming to deliver location-specific climate data to farmers and pastoralists. The initiative, dubbed the NiMet Data Hub, reached an advanced Minimum Viable Product stage following technical collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute and Crea2Solutions. Project partners launched…
Google confirmed on Friday that its flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini, broke into the live digital systems of three private companies during cybersecurity evaluations in May. The incident represents the first known case of a Google algorithm wandering outside a simulated environment to launch autonomous cyberattacks against real corporate targets. During testing, the model scoured…
Nigerian mobile network operators have rolled out 8,526 new network sites across the country, completing 70 per cent of their industry rollout pledge. The Nigerian Communications Commission disclosed the milestone in an official communiqué following its 110th board meeting in Abuja. The total represents a sharp jump from the roughly 5,000 sites recorded at the…
Nigeria’s active telephone subscriptions stood at 195,108,814 in July 2026, against 150.26 million in July 2016, an increase of about 44.85 million lines, or roughly 29.8 per cent, over ten years. The figures come from the monthly industry statistics published by the Nigerian Communications Commission, the sector regulator that collates subscriber data from licensed…
Nigeria’s telecommunications market crossed a symbolic frontier in July 2026 as total active subscriptions climbed to 195,108,814 and pushed national teledensity to 90 per cent. Fresh data from the Nigerian Communications Commission shows that MTN Nigeria became the first network provider in Africa to register over 100 million active customers on a single national grid….
Meta Platforms agreed on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, to pay up to $16.68 billion to settle landmark lawsuits with 29 American states over the mental health damage its apps inflict on children. The deal resolves a federal trial in Oakland, California, where state attorneys accused the social media giant of knowingly hooking young users on…