Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- Africa is approaching a decisive decade that will determine whether the continent shapes its own digital destiny or remains exposed to escalating democratic, developmental and data-governance vulnerabilities, the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and Publisher of PREMIUM TIMES, Dapo Olorunyomi, has said.

A veteran journalist and prominent defender of press freedom, Mr Olorunyomi delivered the warning in his welcome address at the third edition of CJID's Media and Development Conference (MDC-3.0) in Abuja on Monday.

He said the continent stood at a historic inflexion point, where democratic fragility and data exploitation now converge with unprecedented prospects fo...