“Until death, all defeat is psychological.” - Anon

"AI-generated impersonation has reached Nigerian institutions. On 29 May 2025, NNPC Limited disowned a video that used a cloned voice of its Group Chief Executive Officer, Bayo Bashir Ojulari, to promote a fictitious poverty-alleviation scheme, and regulators in South Africa and Ghana issued comparable alerts in the months that followed. Surfshark's analysis of documented incidents puts global losses from deepfake fraud at US$335 million in 2024 and US$2.5 billion in 2025, with US$3.7 billion recorded between January 2020 and June 2026. On Proshare's computation, recorded losses rose about 7.5 times in one year, and the series counts only documented cases. Joyce Onyegbula, a strategic communications professional, argues that boards and executive teams should own the response. In her account, an institution protects its voice through three connected capabilities, i.e. verification of what is authentic, clear authority over who speaks for it, and a record of conduct that makes its response credible. She places communications leaders inside that governance structure early enough to identify vulnerabilities and shape proportionate responses before an incident. Ms Onyegbula frames the issue as a governance imperative for business leaders and investors. Issuers, banks and capital market operators release price-sensitive information through executives whose faces and voices are public, and we must track how they and their regulators establish verified channels for official announcements." proshare.co/articles/ai-deep… via @proshare