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Nigeria's entries are agricultural and educational — satellite crop monitoring, an AI tutor that lifted learning in a World Bank trial — under a National AI Strategy published in 2025.
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Services 58.2% · Industry 16.4% · Agriculture 23% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025
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DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria17 Oct 2026
Nigeria Immigration Service deploys AI tools and audit trails to border officers
Nigeria Immigration Service — The Nigeria Immigration Service has switched on AI-assisted tools and digital audit trails, an AI in border control rollout that flags suspicious migration patterns and makes each officer's action reviewable. Comptroller-General Kemi Nandap told 87 officers finishing a course in Abuja on Friday 16 October 2026 that linking the Border Management Information System and the Migration Information and Data Analysis System had pooled over 15 million records. Alerts never replace judgement, she said; misuse of the immigration AI system means investigation.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria14 Oct 2026
West African electoral commissions adopt guidelines for AI in elections
ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) — INEC, Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission, and ECONEC, the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions, approved a regional framework for AI in electoral processes when a two-day Abuja validation session closed on 13 October 2026. ECONEC formed the drafting team after a November 2025 Dakar symposium on AI and election integrity. Serigne Ka, ECONEC's Permanent Secretary, names applying this election AI guidance across West Africa as the next step.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria3 Oct 2026
NITDA to use AI to sort youth conference ideas into policy themes
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) — Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is bringing AI analysis of youth submissions to the maiden National Youth Conference in Abuja, with software clustering delegates' ideas by topic. Director General Kashifu Inuwa said NITDA and the relevant ministry would pass grouped findings to a panel weighing priorities before policy proposals. Zonal rounds, 5 to 17 October 2026, add AI-sorted youth input from 360 federal constituencies, six geopolitical zones and diaspora members.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria25 Sep 2026
Ondo State launches AI system for civil-service payroll and pensions
Ondo State Government — Ondo State Government runs AI in civil service payroll, staff files and retirement through Ondo AI, unveiled by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa at the Governor's Office Cocoa Conference Hall, Akure. Forerunner Ondo Pay, an AI-enabled HR platform, has paid 2,802 recipients N9.7 billion in pensions and gratuities via automated pension processing.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria18 Sep 2026
Nigerian Defence Academy opens an AI-enabled CCTV command centre
Nigerian Defence Academy — Chief of Defence Staff General Olufemi Oluyede has commissioned the Nigerian Defence Academy Command Centre in Kaduna, built around AI CCTV surveillance. The cameras should sharpen situational awareness and better shield cadets, staff and critical infrastructure. Oluyede urged the armed forces to adopt AI-assisted security monitoring faster as threats shift.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria10 Sep 2026
INEC introduces AI to flag discrepancies in election results
Independent National Electoral Commission — The Independent National Electoral Commission has rolled out an intelligent Results Management process for AI election results verification, flagging clashes between polling-unit tallies. Chairman Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, at the Global Conference on Responsible AI and Elections in Ottawa, said machine reasoning should fortify, never supplant, voting bodies. Nigeria targets 2027.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria8 Sep 2026
Nigerian Army puts AI and simulation into battlefield planning
Nigerian Army — The Nigerian Army is broadening data analytics, artificial intelligence and simulation technology into military AI decision support, for sharper battlefield judgement. Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Waidi Shaibu billed simulation a critical command instrument behind predictive capabilities. Shaibu opened a Simulation Training Seminar at the Land Forces Simulation Centre Nigeria, Giri, Abuja.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria9 Jul 2026
Nigeria's Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill nears passage with AI rules
National Assembly of Nigeria — Nigeria AI regulation nears enactment via the National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill, now at third reading. Lawmaker Shuaib Salisu says the draft grades AI systems by risk, tying deployment duties to each grade. Oversight would pass to the National Information Technology Development Agency, part of a wider AI governance framework taking hold nationally.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria21 May 2026
Nigeria launches GovGuide, an AI chatbot for government services
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy — Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy launched GovGuide Nigeria, an AI chatbot for government services answering citizens by voice or text in English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. Local firm Publica AI built the voice-and-text assistant on Meta's open-source Llama models with the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorNigeria6 May 2026
Nigeria launches AI literacy training for senior civil servants with UNESCO
Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation — Nigeria's Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has begun AI literacy training for civil servants: a three-day Programme in Abuja, backed by UNESCO and the European Union. Didi Walson-Jack calls it a lever for faster AI-driven change across the Federal Government. Trainers under UNESCO's ethical AI framework will carry AI skills training for government workers on to ministries and agencies.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria27 Apr 2026
Lagos uses AI to screen emergency reports for pranks
Lagos State Government — The Lagos State Government's Lagos Emergency Responders Management System went live on 27 April 2026, connecting the state ambulance service, LASTMA and the fire service to the Lagos State Command and Control Centre. AI emergency call screening checks reports live, acting as a prank-call filter against false alarms, and pinpoints callers automatically.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria10 Mar 2026
Akwa Ibom State Judiciary deploys AI to speed up court proceedings
Akwa Ibom State Judiciary — Among six states trialling courtroom AI for the National Judicial Institute, Akwa Ibom State Judiciary now applies AI in court proceedings, recording and converting hearings into written form without manual effort. LexScript AI built the underlying tool, delivering finished transcripts inside 24 hours. Justice Ekaete Fabian-Obot, the Chief Judge, foresees swifter case handling as this courtroom transcription pilot spreads further.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria5 Mar 2026
Nigeria Immigration Service launches AI centre to track visa overstayers
Nigeria Immigration Service — Ten years of traveller records are now searchable via AI visa overstayer tracking, thanks to the Nigeria Immigration Service's new Integrated Operations Centre. Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said the AI-driven immigration records system grants officers live history lookups, letting NIS catch overstaying foreigners nationwide amid wider border reform.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria23 Feb 2026
Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy
Nigeria Data Protection Commission — Nearly 60 privacy regulators worldwide joined Nigeria's Data Protection Commission in signing the Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy. Compliance Audit Returns under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, plus the General Application and Implementation Directive, will now judge responsible AI use.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorNigeria20 Feb 2026
Anambra certifies 41 court reporters in AI transcription
Anambra State Government and Anambra State Judiciary (with LexTech Ecosystem Limited) — Anambra's judiciary gains 41 verbatim reporters certified in AI court transcription by LexTech Ecosystem Limited for the Anambra State Government, graduating at the High Court Hall in Awka. Their LexScriptAI speech-to-text training aims to swap courtroom longhand for machine-assisted records.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorNigeria17 Dec 2025
Federal Civil Service deploys Service-Wide GPT for civil servants
Federal Civil Service of Nigeria — Nigeria's Federal Civil Service has logged 25,000-plus chats on Service-Wide GPT, an AI tool for public administration. It draws on the Constitution, Public Service Rules, statutory regulations and official circulars for workers across ministries, departments and agencies. Didi Esther Walson-Jack cited the count as evidence the AI chatbot for government staff is catching on.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria23 Oct 2025
Nigeria's AI Bill introduced to the House of Representatives
Nigerian House of Representatives — HB 2567, the Nigerian Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2025, sits before Nigeria's House of Representatives, building Nigeria AI regulation around ethical, accountable AI development. Backers call it an AI governance framework covering deployment and oversight nationwide. National Assembly members are still debating passage.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria19 Sep 2025
National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025 to 2029
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy — Nigeria AI policy now runs on five pillars set out in the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025-2029: infrastructure, ecosystem growth, sector-wide adoption, ethics safeguards and governance. The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy issued the plan on 19 September 2025 with NITDA as lead implementer. Officials call it a living national AI strategy meant to evolve rather than stay fixed.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria4 Feb 2025
National Artificial Intelligence Trust
Federal Executive Council — Nigeria now has an AI oversight body Nigeria calls the National Artificial Intelligence Trust, set up by President Bola Tinubu's Federal Executive Council. Ten (10) AI specialists and two ministers sit on this panel, charged with pooling funds and driving national AI strategy across Nigeria's leading economic sectors.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorNigeria1 Jun 2023
Draft Code of Practice for Artificial Intelligence
National Information Technology Development Agency — Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) drafted the Code of Practice for Artificial Intelligence, setting a nationwide baseline for AI systems. This Nigeria AI regulation mandates risk checks, disclosure, human oversight and conformity assessment for higher-risk systems, an emerging AI governance framework. Consultation continues as of September 2026, pending final adoption.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has written AI into its anti-money-laundering standards for banks and fintechs.
DeploymentFinance & InsuranceNigeria24 Jul 2026
Access Bank launches AI-powered SME management app
Access Bank Plc — Access Bank Plc's Access SME App gives Nigeria's micro, small and medium enterprises an AI-powered SME management app with embedded funding. Record-keeping, stock oversight and staff supervision run unattended, feeding owners an AI-generated business insights tool, launched at its MSME Digital Growth Conference.
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) — First City Monument Bank has built AI chatbot in banking functionality into its app, naming the tool Temi. The bank paired this with reward points, mutual fund access and instant virtual cards, sharpening its digital-first edge in Nigeria's crowded online banking market; Temi acts as an AI-powered banking assistant for routine support.
Coronation Insurance adds AI vehicle inspection to motor policies
Coronation Insurance Plc — Nigeria's Coronation Insurance Plc now offers AI vehicle inspection on its digital onboarding portal, where motor insurance buyers photograph their cars rather than awaiting a manual check. This photo-based inspection relies on image recognition technology, speeding underwriting and claims assessments.
Heirs Insurance launches Prince AI to sell policies and track claims
Heirs Insurance Group — Heirs Insurance Group has introduced Prince AI, an AI insurance assistant answering queries in languages such as English, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, French and Chinese. On WhatsApp, the SimpleLife mobile app and the insurer's site, the generative AI handles policy purchases, renewals, and filing and tracking claims.
Nigeria's central bank writes AI into its anti-money-laundering rules
Central Bank of Nigeria — The Central Bank of Nigeria's baseline standards oblige banks, fintechs and payment firms to adopt automated anti-money-laundering systems, the bank's first AI AML rules. They favour automated risk scoring, anomaly detection and behavioural pattern recognition, demand at least yearly independent validation of machine-learning models and require explanations for every alert.
AXA Mansard launches AI digital vehicle inspection in Nigeria
AXA Mansard Insurance — Snap a photo, skip the inspector: AXA Mansard Insurance now runs AI digital vehicle inspection in Nigeria, built alongside Curacel, covering new comprehensive policies, renewals and claims. Machine-driven photo review has taken over from on-site assessors.
Wema Bank launches SAW voice banking AI on ALAT platform
Wema Bank — Wema Bank embedded SAW, an AI voice banking assistant, within ALAT: The Evolution. Spoken requests let customers check balances, transfer cash and settle bills across English, Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. Facial recognition alongside voice-controlled financial services checks confirms who is speaking.
Evidence of adoptionFinance & InsuranceNigeria9 Sep 2025
Zoho survey finds 93% of Nigerian firms adopting AI
Zoho (survey by) — AI adoption Nigeria is accelerating: Zoho's poll of 386 respondents put the figure at 93%, financial services leading at 29%. Over 50% have moved past pilots into full operational use, part of a wider shift in AI in Nigerian business. Customer service automation tops applications at 49%, ahead of software development at 46% and marketing optimisation at 32%.
Cornerstone Insurance — Nigeria's Cornerstone Insurance Plc deployed Cici, an AI chatbot in insurance, spanning several digital channels. Policyholders now secure pre-priced cover and resolve claims via the generative AI-powered chatbot, capable of managing numerous enquiries together through adaptive, situation-aware exchanges instead of scripted replies.
FirstBank launches Fibani AI chatbot for 24/7 banking
FirstBank of Nigeria — FirstBank of Nigeria now offers Fibani, an always-on AI chatbot in corporate banking built into its digital platforms. The virtual banking assistant opens accounts, checks balances, moves funds, fields loan queries, logs ATM dispense errors, and lets users freeze accounts or blacklist USSD for security.
UBA enables cross-border payments on its AI chatbot LEO
United Bank for Africa (UBA) — LEO, UBA's AI chatbot in banking, now settles cross-border transfers through the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), a continental first. Funds move instantly in local currency between African nations via the chatbot for banking transactions, with no separate system required.
FirstBank opens Digital Xperience Centre with AI humanoid robots
FirstBank of Nigeria — Humanoid machines welcome visitors at FirstBank's fifth Digital Xperience Centre in Lekki, Lagos, a sign of AI in retail banking taking physical shape. They respond to queries instantly, alongside self-service kiosks, contactless ATMs, video banking and a machine issuing ATM cards within three minutes, watched over by fraud detection powered by artificial intelligence in banking.
Unitrust Insurance — UNIS, Unitrust Insurance's new AI insurance chatbot, offers 24/7 policy queries, quotes and claims handling. Policyholders use this self-service insurance bot to file and follow claims, buy motor cover, pay premiums and download documents unaided.
Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria — Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission now polices algorithm-driven investment advice through its Rules on Robo-Advisory Services, covering how computer-driven advisory platforms register, operate and manage risk. Providers of these automated tools must also satisfy governance standards and safeguards protecting clients.
An AI tutor lifted Nigerian students' learning in a World Bank trial.
DeploymentEducation & TrainingNigeria27 Oct 2026
Bayelsa Medical University brings in AI-powered robotic tutors
Bayelsa Medical University — Bayelsa Medical University, Yenagoa, now uses AI-powered robotic tutors in AI medical education, unveiled by Governor Douye Diri with its 2025–2029 Strategic Plan as a support for lecturers. Dimie Ogoina, the vice-chancellor, added a studio for virtual reality, AI and mixed reality, plus simulation in the clinical skills laboratory, as wider AI-assisted training takes shape.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingNigeria19 Oct 2026
AI micro-credential enrolments in Nigeria rise 93%, Coursera reports
Coursera — AI micro-credential enrolment rose 93 per cent and critical thinking certification 113 per cent, Coursera's Global Skills Report 2026 (released 28 September 2026) shows, the strongest AI skills in Nigeria figures. AI security sign-ups jumped 137 per cent, generative AI 126 and AI courses 28 per cent year on year. On the new AI-Human Skills Synergy Index, drawn from 300 million Coursera and Udemy learners, the country ranks fifth of 11 Sub-Saharan African countries and 81st worldwide for AI learning uptake.
Jigawa will use AI to teach pupils who miss school
Jigawa State Government — Jigawa State will offer AI home learning to state-school pupils who miss class through farm labour, poor weather or other interruptions, via the JigawaUNITE programme with NewGlobe. Officials say the AI-powered education system will also coach teachers in class, guide instruction live and track performance.
Akwa Ibom brings EIDU's AI teaching model to 67 primary schools
Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Education — Akwa Ibom State launched an AI teaching programme in public primary schools with EIDU and the state Ministry of Education, offering pupils personalised learning and teachers structured lessons. Phase one targets about 6,000 pupils in 67 schools in 2025/26, and live data lets teachers and heads spot learning gaps early.
Ogun State launches the OgunLearn AI teaching platform
Ogun State Government — Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun launched OgunLearn, an AI learning platform for the state's schools offering students lesson resources and interactive support. The AI-powered teaching tool should help teachers prepare, deliver and monitor performance more efficiently, within an education digitisation agenda alongside the Diper school management system.
Anambra powers 22 pilot schools with AI-driven Edves platform
Anambra State Government — Anambra State, Nigeria, deployed EdTech platform Edves in 22 pilot smart schools, one per local government area. Adaptive lesson planning, predictive analytics and AI personalised learning shape instruction and monitor student progress live. Teachers get AI-curated lesson templates, performance analytics and automated assessment tools; the AI-tailored learning platform handles enrolment, digital attendance and infrastructure monitoring.
AI tutor lifts Nigerian students' learning in World Bank trial
A World Bank randomised trial in Edo State, Nigeria showed AI tutoring lifting learning by roughly 0.31 standard deviations, and 0.23 in English, across a six-week after-school scheme for about 800 senior-secondary students. Supervised by teachers, pupils used a generative-AI tutor, Microsoft Copilot powered by GPT-4; the World Bank likens the improvement to about two years of typical learning, and end-of-year exam scores rose too. A formal working paper records the trial.
Journalists covering the Osun election reported attacks through WAFLO, an AI-assisted WhatsApp line.
Evidence of adoptionMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentNigeria15 Oct 2026
73% of surveyed Nigerian telecom licensees use or pilot AI, NCC finds
Nigerian Communications Commission — 73 percent of licensees polled by the Nigerian Communications Commission run or pilot artificial intelligence in live operations and 27 percent have no governance arrangements for those systems, an AI in telecoms snapshot presented by NCC Internet Governance head Ibiso Kingsley-George at the Internet Governance Symposium in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday 15 October 2026. The poll covered 47 organisations, from mobile operators to academia and civil society. 94 percent back telling consumers when AI is on the line; which telecom AI applications they run was not asked.
MTN Nigeria adds voice to its Zigi AI digital assistant
MTN Nigeria — MTN Nigeria launched Zigi Voice, an AI voice assistant letting customers talk live in the myMTN NG app. Requests include NIN enquiries, data purchases, balance checks and personalised recommendations. Spoken AI support runs in English and Pidgin, with more local languages being developed.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentNigeria14 Aug 2026
Nigerian journalists get an AI line to report election attacks
International Press Centre — The International Press Centre piloted WAFLO, a WhatsApp-based AI election incident reporting system, during the Osun State governorship election. Journalists on duty logged harassment, intimidation, assaults, threats and other press freedom violations live over the WhatsApp line for monitoring and documentation. It runs under Component 4 of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria Phase Two programme, with the Centre for Media and Society.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentNigeria30 Jun 2026
BusinessDay launches SIA, Nigeria's first AI news assistant
BusinessDay — BusinessDay has unveiled Nigeria's first AI news assistant, SIA (Strategic Intelligence Assistant), becoming the first newspaper AI chatbot in the country. Readers pose questions in ordinary language and get responses pulled straight from the paper's own articles, with the tool condensing dense subjects and locating pertinent pieces across markets, policy and companies. No other Nigerian title had rolled out such a tool before.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentNigeria11 Jun 2026
MTN Nigeria replaces 200 SIM workers with 13 AI agents
MTN Nigeria — MTN Nigeria runs 13 AI agents for SIM registration verification, work more than 200 workers did by hand. Using computer vision, the agents beat manual processing on speed and accuracy. MTN is extending automated SIM checks to Ghana, Cameroon and Zambia, among other African markets.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentNigeria30 Oct 2025
ICIR launches Native AI tool for journalists and researchers
International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) — Native AI gives Nigerian journalists their first homegrown AI transcription and translation tool, built by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting. The free system converts English audio into written Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, easing workloads for students and researchers too, as a language-conversion aid tailored to Nigerian tongues.
The federal government has unveiled an AI satellite system to monitor crops.
DeploymentAgriculture & FoodNigeria25 Jul 2026
Nigeria unveils an AI satellite system to monitor crops
Federal Government of Nigeria — Nigeria's Federal Government unveiled NAPS, a national AI crop monitoring system built with OCP Africa and Ground Truth Analytics that reads satellite images refreshed every five days and pinpoints individual farms. Satellite farm mapping will spread in phases under a memorandum of understanding, from one state towards 15 priority states, following pilots the partners say reached 13 states and over 250,000 farmers.
Nigeria launches NAIP, an AI-powered agricultural intelligence platform
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security — Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has rolled out the Nigeria Agricultural Intelligence Platform (NAIP), an AI advisory tool built with Pixels Solutions for AI in agriculture. Farmers get weather outlooks, market guidance and agronomic tips, plus USSD access for rural areas without smartphones.
Nigeria launches AgriConnect AI tools for 1,000 farmers in Ogun State
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy — Over 1,000 farmers in Ogun State now carry smart devices with Huawei AI technology and MTN connectivity, issued by Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy under its AgriConnect Initiative. This early instance of AI in agriculture delivers planting advice, weather updates, market prices and financial data through AI-powered farming tools, sharpening decisions and cutting climate risk.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesNigeria17 Mar 2026
Jacaranda Health and eHealth Africa launch AI maternal health platform in Kano
eHealth Africa and Jacaranda Health — eHealth Africa and Jacaranda Health extended PROMPTS, an SMS-based AI maternal health platform, to Kano State for 25,000 mothers in underserved communities. Hausa and English texts deliver pregnancy and newborn guidance to phones. Nigeria follows Kenya, where the same AI-enabled maternal health messaging tool had already reached over 3.8 million mothers.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesNigeria1 Jul 2025
PATH and Viamo trial voice-based AI health hotline in Nigeria
PATH and Viamo — CHEWA (Community Health Extension Worker Assistant), an AI health hotline in Nigeria devised by PATH and Viamo, needs nothing but a basic handset to reach frontline staff. Callers in Kano and Oyo states receive spoken, generative-AI clinical advice, an offline-friendly example of voice-based AI clinical decision support built for places lacking data access. Around 100 participants signed on, enrolment launched June 2025, with a goal near 3,000 patient encounters.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesNigeria11 Mar 2025
AI-guided screening doubles cardiomyopathy detection in Nigerian trial
SPEC-AI Nigeria Investigators — Doctors running SPEC-AI Nigeria, a six-hospital randomised controlled trial, doubled peripartum case detection using AI-guided cardiomyopathy screening against routine obstetric care. The AI-enhanced digital stethoscope method required just 47 screenings per extra diagnosis uncovered. Results appearing in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine mark Nigeria's inaugural randomised health AI trial.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesNigeria22 Aug 2025
Olaniwun Ajayi deploys Harvey AI for legal work in Nigeria
Olaniwun Ajayi — Nigeria's Olaniwun Ajayi now pioneers Harvey AI legal work, the country's and West Africa's first adopter of a generative platform built solely on legal data, advancing AI in law locally. Wired into Thomson Reuters, Westlaw and LexisNexis, it speeds research, drafting and case review while keeping client secrecy and data privacy intact.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesNigeria28 Aug 2024
Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Nigerian Legal Profession
Nigerian Bar Association Section on Legal Practice — Nigeria's legal sector gained formal guidance on AI in legal practice through the Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession in Nigeria, issued by the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Legal Practice. The framework equips lawyers with ethical expectations covering client confidentiality, sound professional judgment, safeguarding of data and management of risk when deploying such tools. It emerged alongside other technology-focused releases unveiled at the association's Annual General Meeting, marking a coordinated push toward artificial intelligence oversight within the country's bar.
Chain Reactions Africa adds AI robot Ara to its workforce
Chain Reactions Africa — Chain Reactions Africa, a Nigerian PR and marketing communications agency, has hired Ara by Prophet as a full-time team member in an AI robot workforce move, billed as the continent's first intelligent robotic insight system. It merges machine learning with cultural foresight to function as a live data analyst, cultural interpreter and strategy consultant on client accounts. The hire positions an artificial intelligence system as a named staff member rather than a background tool, reflecting a wider push toward AI-powered workforce automation in African marketing.
mediaReachOMD — MediaReachOMD's AI consumer intelligence platform, OMD Consumer Intelligence 2.0 (OCI 2.0), now covers 16 Nigerian markets, up from 7. Built-in generative AI handles analytical work, renders dynamic charts, and runs questionnaire simulation and rollout—pushing AI-driven consumer analytics past the tool's earlier reach.
Netzence launches KlimateRide, Nigeria's first AI-driven ride platform
Netzence Sustainability Limited — Netzence Sustainability Limited debuts KlimateRide in Lagos, Nigeria's first AI-driven ride-hailing platform. Onboard software runs allocation, routing and live tracking, plus ID checks, an SOS button and route analysis under this AI ride-hailing and delivery service. Drivers keep 92 percent of each fare.
Dangote Cement uses AI and telematics to boost fleet safety
Dangote Cement — Crashes involving Dangote Cement lorries dropped 56 percent from 2025 to 2026, by the firm's own count, following AI fleet safety tools plus upgraded GPS and telematics in Nigeria. Drivers are watched live and automated inspection technologies check vehicles, an AI-led haulage safety push aimed at efficiency.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesNigeria28 Jun 2026
NDPHC uses AI to predict power grid turbine failures
Niger Delta Power Holding Company — Nigeria's Niger Delta Power Holding Company runs predictive maintenance AI in power generation, tracking gas turbine vibration, heat and part wear to flag deterioration before an unplanned shutdown. This AI-driven turbine failure prediction replaces fixed-schedule servicing with condition-based alerts.
BUA Foods — BUA Foods, the Nigerian FMCG arm of BUA Group, now drives AI-driven sales automation using BeatRoute's Sales Force Automation Software and Customer App. Reps get smart scheduling, order optimisation and plain-language lookups against live figures, swapping out paper-based habits across the distribution footprint. This BeatRoute rollout, an AI-powered sales force automation tool, seeks tighter delivery planning group-wide.
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Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.
The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 4731 entries across 249 countries.
Nigeria17 Oct 2026
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