Nigeria Pushes African Bloc for AI Sovereignty

Nigeria Pushes African Bloc for AI Sovereignty

Nigeria wants African nations to pool their digital resources to avoid becoming tech colonies. Kashifu Abdullahi, head of the National Information Technology Development Agency, warned that the continent owns less than 1 per cent of global computing power. This tiny share persists even though Africa holds nearly a fifth of the world’s population. Nigeria is…

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Hackers Seize 750GB Of CAC Files As Nigeria’s Digital Defences Crumble

A sophisticated wave of ransomware attacks has battered Nigerian government agencies and tier-1 financial institutions over the past three weeks, exposing deep fragilities in the nation’s digitising economy. Reports from the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) confirm that “coordinated and sophisticated” threat actors have breached critical infrastructure, causing…

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GenAI Threatens Jobs, ILO-World Bank Alert

  A joint working paper by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Bank has cautioned that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will fundamentally alter labour markets across the world, with the most vulnerable economies standing to lose the most if deliberate policy action is not taken. The study, prepared as a background paper for…

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