The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made it clear that it sees foreign-driven disinformation as one of the most serious threats hanging over Nigeria’s 2027 General Election, and it is not trying to fight that threat alone. On Wednesday, 4 November 2026, at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja, INEC Chairman Professor Joash Amupitan received two separate courtesy visits—one from the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr Leonardo Santos Simao, and another from the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr…

Picture a new parent at 2 a.m., anxious about a child’s fever. They type symptoms into a chatbot, and within seconds receive a fluid, confident answer that sounds like it came from a trusted pediatrician. The advice seems authoritative, reasoned, complete. But it may be entirely fabricated. This scenario is not hypothetical; it is happening in millions of households, and it represents a profound shift in how health information is created, shared, and believed. A new review from University of Maryland communication researcher Xiaoli Nan, reported by Ophelia Keating for Bioengineer and published in Frontiers in Medicine, argues that generative…