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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
Financial regulators expect banks and fintech firms to store all domestic payment data within national borders by January 2027. The Central Bank of Nigeria and the National Information Technology Development Agency renewed their joint ultimatum during an executive summit in Lagos on Wednesday. Only 59 per cent of surveyed financial institutions currently report readiness to…
Visa cardholders in Nigeria can now link their debit and credit cards directly to Google Wallet to make contactless digital payments. The international payment giant announced the integration on 28 October 2026, opening direct mobile checkout to millions of local Android device owners. Consumers tap their smartphones at point-of-sale terminals or select Google Pay during…
Anthropic suffered an eye-watering net loss of $80.7bn in the first six months of 2026 as soaring valuations turned convertible debt into an accounting nightmare ahead of its planned November stock market debut. A draft prospectus reviewed by Reuters shows that paper charges drove most of the damage, specifically a $72bn adjustment tied to the…
Elon Musk said on Monday that he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the United States next year, a promise that would transfer billions of dollars in equity but which leaves the mechanics of the scheme almost entirely undefined. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to…
Elon Musk revealed a redesigned Tesla Roadster prototype in Texas on Thursday, promising that the rocket-assisted sports car will fly and enter production by 2028. The demonstration at a SpaceX facility in McGregor showed the two-seater vehicle turning in mid-air and landing with help from built-in thrusters developed alongside his rocket company. Musk loves theatre…
Small artificial intelligence systems may soon copy themselves across domestic kitchen ovens and cheap television boxes without setting foot inside corporate data centres. In a security assessment published on Monday, 13 October, researchers at Anthropic warned that models under thirty billion parameters could gain autonomous self-replication skills before the year ends. Silicon Valley’s safety rails…
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…