Anambra’s local AI raises Nigeria’s digital sovereignty hopes
*As OADC, Analytics Intelligence deal, media’s Big Tech battle fuel push for homegrown AI By Prince Osuagwu Nigeria’s dream of achieving artificial intelligence AI sovereignty may have received an unexpected boost from Anambra State, where the state’s ICT Agency has begun deploying a locally trained AI system to automate government operations and explore new ways of improving productivity, governance and revenue collection.
LekeeLekee is not itself an AI sovereignty project, but its underlying philosophy is relevant: local ownership of digital platforms matters when technology becomes the infrastructure through which society communicates, does business and consumes information.
While Anambra’s initiative is not a frontier AI model capable of competing with the likes of ChatGPT or Google Gemini, its significance is that it demonstrates that Nigeria does not necessarily have to wait for global technology giants before it can begin building AI systems around its own data, institutions and peculiar needs.
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