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  • Uganda elections 2021: Facebook shuts government-linked accounts

    Facebook has shut down accounts it says are linked to the Ugandan government, only days before elections for a new…

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  • 2023 elections and danger of ‘deepfake’ technology to Nigerian democracy

    In 2018, Nigeria suffered international embarrassment when President Muhammadu Buhari was forced to deny online claims that he had died…

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  • On INEC, digital democracy and public trust

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has apparently turned its nose up at electronic voting – claiming Nigerians don’t trust…

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  • Why Bitcoin ban undermines digital progress and damages public trust

    Nigeria’s latest anti-corruption chief, Abdulrasheed Bawa has his work cut out. I mean, how are the people of Nigeria supposed…

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  • Need to safeguard Nigeria’s democracy with constitutional amendment

    Myanmar recently sees internet blackouts followed by a military coup. This is a development that Nigeria and other fragile democracies…

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  • Why investing in Lagos offers a great return, by Sanwo-Olu

    Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has enumerated reasons why investing in Lagos will yield great returns. The Governor spoke as…

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  • Technology alone won’t make Nigeria a digital leader

    New figures show that Nigeria has the highest number of internet users in all of Africa – and some of…

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  • With “super-Covid” in Nigeria and infections rising, our children need free data

    During the first coronavirus lockdown, I appealed for the government to insist that telecommunications firms make educational resources exempt from…

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  • Nigeria’s use of digital technology to improve its politics rated as “improving”

    A study into Nigeria’s progress towards becoming Africa’s first digital democracy has ranked our nation’s use of digital technology to…

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  • Don’t spy on our phones, use them to engage us to avoid another #EndSARS

    Imagine the government demanded that we download an app to our phone that would tell them where we were at…

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