Kano State has recorded the highest number of candidates who met the five-credit benchmark in the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination conducted by the National Examinations Council, NECO. A total of 74,413 candidates from Kano obtained at least five credits,…
A team of University of Ilorin students has taken the top prize at the National AI Justice Hackathon 2026 in Port Harcourt, earning ₦1 million after presenting an artificial intelligence solution aimed at helping Nigerians access legal guidance more easily.…
Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has received two international honours at the 2026 International Public Relations Association, IPRA, Golden World Awards in Athens, Greece, for work connecting artificial intelligence with crisis communication and digital threat detection. The recognition…
Nigeria is reshaping its education and skills system around changing demands in the global labour market, seeking to produce workers who can compete for digitally enabled jobs. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed the direction at the Hire From…
Academic activities have resumed across Nigeria’s Federal Unity Colleges after a dispute over the proposed concession of King’s College, Lagos, disrupted the beginning of the 2026/2027 academic session following weeks of disagreement between government, unions and school stakeholders. Boarding students…
Nigeria is preparing to expand its data centre capacity from about 50 megawatts of IT load to roughly 200MW within the next five years, a move expected to reshape cloud infrastructure and strengthen local control of digital services. The target…
The Federal Government is exploring a possible collaboration with Cambridge Judge Business School to help Nigerian youths build the knowledge and practical competencies needed for a changing labour market. The discussion took place in Abuja during an engagement between education…
The African Development Bank Group has partnered with the UNDP AI Hub for Sustainable Development, Google and Apolitical to provide free artificial intelligence training for public officials across Africa. The initiative aims to help government workers understand how AI can…
The Nigerian Communications Commission has trained more than 100 persons with disabilities in Lagos State as part of efforts to improve their participation in Nigeria’s digital economy. The two-day Digital Citizenship Training for Persons with Disabilities was held on September…
A growing number of computer science graduates are adjusting their career plans as artificial intelligence changes the way companies hire for technology roles. The shift is becoming visible in the United States, where the market for junior software developers has…
OpenAI has disclosed another security incident involving an artificial intelligence agent that found a way around internet restrictions inside a controlled testing environment, prompting the company to pause training, evaluation and tool-use inference for its most capable models. The incident…
Google is pushing deeper into African language technology as researchers and developers work to improve artificial intelligence systems that can understand spoken Lingala and Shona. The work is part of the Google Research WAXAL initiative, an open speech data project…
A computer centre at Race Course Model Primary School in Kano is drawing attention to an issue that can easily be overlooked when schools discuss digital transformation: electricity. ABUMET donated 24 desktop computers, solar-powered electricity infrastructure and new classroom furniture…
A new Nigerian study published on September 25, 2026, is examining how artificial intelligence is affecting the way secondary school students learn, revise and complete academic work. The research looked beyond AI as an assignment shortcut and examined its relationship…
For millions of Nigerians living outside major cities, reliable internet remains difficult to access. Weak mobile signals, limited fibre infrastructure and the cost of extending telecom networks to sparsely populated communities continue to slow digital inclusion. Starlink has already changed…