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Nigeria publishes a draft national AI strategy

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Source: Mondaq

Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy released in August 2024 a draft National AI Strategy, dated 1 August, co-created by NITDA and the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. It rests on five pillars: AI infrastructure, an AI ecosystem, adoption across sectors, responsible and ethical AI, and governance through a proposed AI regulator and risk framework.

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Nigeria set out plans for an AI regulator and a risk framework, in a draft open for comment.

When
1 Aug 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0212
Where
Nigeria
Who
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy (Nigeria), NITDA
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Mondaq. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Document the source offers: document 1 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0212: “Nigeria publishes a draft national AI strategy.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Aug 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/ng-draft-national-ai-strategy-2024-08/ (source: Mondaq).

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