Verified AI Resources in Nigeria
11 verified ai resources for building in Nigeria. Every one has had its documentation, licensing and live status checked, not just listed. Last verified 24 Jun 2026.
NaijaML
Production-ready NLP library (v0.2.1, Mar 2026) covering all 4 Nigerian languages, running in 4GB RAM with no GPU, with PII masking for NIN/phone. The most practical Nigerian AI resource for developers.
YarnGPT2b
Nigerian-accented English TTS and ASR model (Jan 2025) with 11 voices, trained on Nollywood and podcast audio.
Africa GPU Hub
First Nigerian GPU rental marketplace (Udutech, Lagos), offering GPU cloud compute at under $1/hr.
Awarri
Awarri is a Lagos-based AI and robotics company that built N-ATLaS, Nigeria's first government-backed open-source multilingual LLM (Llama-3 8B fine-tuned on ~392M tokens of English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba), in partnership with NCAIR and the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy. It also operates the LangEasy data-collection platform.
EqualyzAI
EqualyzAI is a voice-first agentic AI company building speech recognition, text-to-speech and voice agents for African languages and dialects (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin with code-switching), with products including VoiceMaker, VoiceAgent and VoiceBridge plus datasets/APIs. Operates from Lagos, Nigeria and Washington DC.
Intron Health
Intron Health is a Nigerian voice-AI company whose Sahara-v2 models deliver clinical/medical speech recognition (and TTS) optimized natively for African accents and dialects, trained on Africa's largest clinical speech database (millions of clips across 200+ accents). Serves healthcare, call-centre, legal and biometrics use cases via STT/TTS/voice-bot APIs.
Lanfrica
Lanfrica is a catalog/registry mapping African language resources (datasets, models, papers and policies) via its African AI Atlas, positioning itself as 'the evidence layer for African AI.' Built by Lanfrica Labs with partners including Meta, Mozilla, Masakhane and Lacuna Fund.
LangEasy
LangEasy is Awarri's crowdsourced data-collection platform (smartphone app) that lets anyone contribute voice and text in Nigerian languages (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ibibio, Pidgin and accented English) to build the training data behind Nigeria's national LLM, N-ATLaS.
N-ATLaS
Nigeria's first government-backed multilingual LLM (Sep 2025): a Llama-3 8B fine-tuned on 400M+ tokens across 4 Nigerian languages. Produced by NCAIR/NITDA and Awarri.
Prembly FraudLens
Open-source fraud-intelligence dataset for Nigerian fintechs (Mar 2026), the first of its kind. Relevant to payment fraud, KYC fraud and account-takeover detection.
Spitch
Spitch is a Lagos-based voice-AI company (founded Oct 2024) providing ASR (speech-to-text), TTS (text-to-speech) and translation APIs/SDKs for Nigerian languages (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Nigerian-accented English, plus Amharic) so teams can add local-language voice to call centres, media and learning tools.