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Nigeria has opened one of its most consequential regulatory battles with the world’s biggest technology companies, after President Bola Tinubu directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to investigate Meta, Alphabet, X and a number of Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms over allegations that they are exploiting Nigerian journalism without paying for it and…
The National Identity Management Commission has registered over 136 million citizens and legal residents in its database as a sweeping infrastructure overhaul begins. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, the director-general, confirmed the milestone following high-level consultations with the budget ministry. This legislative and technical shift aims to centralise the civic records of Africa’s most populous nation under a…
TikTok has settled a lawsuit brought by a 15 year old Florida teenager just weeks before the company was due to face a jury in a second landmark trial testing whether social media companies can be held responsible for harms allegedly caused by their products. The teenager, identified in court filings only by his initials…
Nigeria’s impressive mobile internet expansion is masking a severe deficit in fixed, high-capacity home connectivity. Fresh data reveals that only 265,000 households across the country possess active Fibre-to-the-Home subscriptions. This microscopic figure stands in stark contrast to the nation’s sprawling 154.72 million active mobile internet subscriptions. Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Aminu…
Apple and Microsoft have rolled out steep price increases for their primary hardware products, blaming a global surge in memory chip costs. The global tech giants announced the coordinated price adjustments on Thursday to offset the rising cost of semiconductor components. Apple immediately implemented price hikes of twenty per cent or more across its entire…
Nigeria accounts for a dismal one percent of the 3.1 billion global 5G mobile subscriptions. The latest Ericsson Mobility Report reveals this massive gap between local adoption and international technological momentum. While international networks rapidly transition toward mainstream commercialisation and standalone infrastructure, Africa’s most populous nation remains firmly anchored to legacy networks. Data from the…
A new smartphone-based technology can detect bacterial contamination on surfaces within five minutes. Developed by food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the diagnostic system removes the need for lengthy laboratory analysis. The innovation provides a rapid tool for hygiene monitoring in hospitals, food processing plants, gyms, and public spaces. Researchers unveiled the portable…
Google will pay SpaceX approximately 920 million dollars per month to secure massive artificial intelligence computing capacity. The tech giant disclosed the multi-billion-dollar cloud services agreement on Friday in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the terms of the contract, Google will gain access to a cluster of roughly 110,000 Nvidia…
Nigeria’s data protection regulator has launched a sweeping sector-wide investigation into 1,369 domestic firms. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission suspects the targeted entities of systemic non-compliance with statutory privacy laws. The massive enforcement operation puts several prominent digital banks, insurance brokers, and gaming firms under intense regulatory scrutiny. It represents the largest coordinated crackdown on…
Your phone rests on the nightstand. Your laptop lid is shut. But Gemini Spark is still working for you. Most AI assistants wait for you to speak before they do anything. You tap, you ask, you wait. Gemini Spark changes that model completely. Google’s latest AI feature is not a smarter chatbot. It is…
