Following an explicit directive from President Bola Tinubu, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has formally commenced an inquiry into major digital platforms including Meta, Alphabet, X, and several generative artificial intelligence operations. ​The regulatory action stems from an official complaint filed by the Nigerian Press Organisation, which represents the country's collective newspaper owners, broadcasters, journalists' unions, and online publishers. The investigation targets allegations of market dominance, anti-competitive market conduct, the unauthorized commercial extraction of copyrighted news material, and the training of generative AI models using proprietary local journalistic content without compensation. While the FCCPC clarified that the inquiry does not presume immediate guilt, the probe is being watched closely across the continent as a major test of a sovereign African nation's capacity to regulate global algorithmic monetization m...