Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Nigeria
Nigeria · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Nigeria. 5 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
64%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
64% of 5 network tests from Nigeria failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 61+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (5)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis5 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kano"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.50
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Federal Capital Territory"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.69
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Ogun"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.74
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Lagos"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.64
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Oyo"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.65
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Nigeria [NG-2026-0092]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/NG-2026-0092