3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (959+ words) Children in rural communities are being introduced to coding, animation, graphic design, desktop publishing and other digital skills as technology organisations and community stakeholders seek to close Nigeria’s growing urban-rural technology gap. The initiative, launched at the Rural Green AI…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (351+ words) Nigeria’s AI economy: Power, data, and the trillion-dollar question Business News Nigeria - Nigeria’s AI economy: Power, data, and the trillion-dollar question Nigeria’s ambition to build a US$1 trillion economy by 2030 hinges on its ability to participate in the artificial intelligence…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1548+ words) Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining economic technologies of the decade, but for Nigeria, the race to build an AI economy may be determined less by who owns the most advanced technology and more by who has the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (649+ words) A Nigerian linguistics researcher at the University of Chicago, Uduma U. Umeh, is generating data on Igbo as part of his research roadmap that could contribute to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and language technologies for low-resource languages. Umeh, a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1015+ words) Africa cannot afford to scale artificial intelligence faster than it can govern the technology, as rapid adoption without adequate safeguards could deepen privacy, discrimination, cybersecurity and accountability risks across the continent, Roseline Ilori, founder and chief executive officer of Bridge57 Solutions…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (579+ words) The University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, has recorded a major breakthrough on the West African innovation landscape, as its technology team, Edu Sign AI, emerged among the top five finalists at a highly competitive regional technology challenge organised by…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (788+ words) Business News Nigeria Why products fail (Part VII) In the last article, the issue of pricing as a factor that can cause the failure of a product was reviewed. The case of Econet (now Airtel), MTN and Glo was used to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1417+ words) Africa’s artificial intelligence ambition is growing, but the continent’s ability to turn that ambition into large-scale deployment may depend on physical infrastructure. Across the continent, governments are publishing AI strategies, startups are deploying AI-powered products, universities are expanding AI research,…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (288+ words) Tanzania commissioned a new 2,115-megawatt hydropower plant on Saturday. This singular move has more than doubled the East African nation’s electricity generation capacity and creating a surplus that officials say could support power exports and ‌industrial growth. The Julius Nyerere…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (553+ words) Thompson Oludare Sunday, managing director and chief executive officer of the NDIC, said the recapitalisation exercise, which concluded on March 31, 2026, was a positive development for the financial sector, but stressed that raising capital was only the first step towards ensuring…...