Nigeria don direct Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to investigate allegations of anti-competitive practices against big global technology companies, including Meta, Alphabet (Google), X (wey dem formerly know as Twitter), and some Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms wey dey operate for Nigeria.

The directive follow one joint petition wey Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) submit to the Presidency, wey accuse the companies of practices wey suppose undermine fair competition, threaten the commercial survival of Nigerian media organisations, and break the rights of content creators and publishers.

NPO include Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), and Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP).

The Federal Government position na im dem convey to FCCPC for one letter wey the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, sign, following directive by President Bola Tinubu.

According to the commission, the investigation go examine concerns about the growing influence of digital platforms on Nigeria's media industry and determine whether any of the companies don break Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act (FCCPA) 2018 or any other law wey apply.

The petition allege say some technology companies dey engage for practices wey fit distort competition while dem dey commercially benefit from journalistic content without paying Nigerian publishers well.

E also raise concerns about alleged unauthorised extraction, scraping, ingestion and commercial use of copyrighted news articles, broadcast materials and other original journalistic works for training and development of Generative AI models.