Country/Region
Nigeria has 5 tracked AI use cases across 3 industries and 5 organizations. Activity is led by Software and Banks, with frequent examples from Awarri and Flutterwave.
Latest examples from this country/region.
Awarri partnered with Nigeria's Ministry of Communications to launch N-ATLAS open-source multilingual LLM trained on Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin English, advancing NLP for underrepresented languages.
Wema Bank has introduced a voice-enabled banking feature on its digital platform, ALAT, following the release of an upgraded version of the application tagged "ALAT: The Evolution." The upgraded platform, launched on January 12, 2026, includes new functionalities designed to allow users to complete banking transactions through voice commands using an in-app virtual assistant known as "SAW." According to the bank, the feature enables end-to-end transaction processing without manual data entry.
Flutterwave deployed AI fraud detection and smart routing in Send App across 33 African countries. ML models analyze transaction patterns, device fingerprinting, and behavioral analytics in real-time to prevent fraud. Smart routing optimizes payment rails by cost, speed, and regulatory compliance, handling millions of daily cross-border transactions.
Nigerian startup Veta Origin, founded by Ismail Waziri, launched a large language model in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Zambia. Trained on African languages and region-specific data, it supports English plus Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Swahili; the six-country rollout is an early testing phase used to collect user feedback and improve accuracy.
Sahara v2 is Intron multilingual speech recognition platform supporting 57 languages including 23 African languages and 500+ African accents, with world-first bilingual Swahili-English ASR for code-switching.
Every Nigeria deployment tracked in the catalog, A-Z.