Active Incident
Confirmed: network disruption in Nigeria
Nigeria · January 7, 2026 · 54 days
IODA detected significant connectivity drop. 2 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
84%
Anomaly Rate
41
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
84% of 41 network tests from Nigeria failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 81+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourcecensoredplanet + ioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 7, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (235)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis233 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sokoto"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.72
Mar 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kano"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.03
Mar 2, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Borno"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.09
Mar 2, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Osun"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
Mar 2, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sokoto"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.72
Mar 2, 2026
View source →+ 228 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research2 records
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for twitter.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Feb 25, 2026
View source →dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Feb 22, 2026
View source →Affected Services (3)
TikTokTwitter/XX
Blocked Domains (2)
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What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: network disruption in Nigeria [NG-2026-0002]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/NG-2026-0002
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