TIKTOK banned 3,780,426 videos in Nigeria between April and June 2025 for breaching its Community Guidelines, the platform revealed in its latest enforcement report released yesterday at the West Africa Safety Summit in Dakar.
News Point Nigeria reports that the same report shows that worldwide, TikTok took down 189 million videos during the second quarter of 2025, meaning Nigeria accounted for roughly 2 percent of global removals despite having a smaller share of the platform’s total user base.
In Nigeria, 98.7 percent of the removed videos were identified and deleted before any user viewed them, and 91.9 percent were taken down within 24 hours of being posted. Globally, 99.1 percent of violative videos were caught proactively, and 94.4 percent were removed within 24 hours.
The figures were presented as TikTok hosted its first West Africa Safety Summit in partnership with AfricTivistes, attended by government officials, regulators, civil society groups, and experts from Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Ethiopia.
Duduzile Mkhize, TikTok’s Outreach and Partnerships Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, said the summit and the enforcement data underline the company’s dual focus on global standards and local context.
“While global, we remain hyper-local in our everyday efforts,” Mkhize told delegates. “Only through sharing insights and collaboration with policymakers and local partners across West Africa can we prevent a fragmented and insecure digital environment.”
The Nigeria-specific data marks the first time TikTok has published quarterly removal figures for an individual African country. Of the 3.78 million videos removed locally, the vast majority were detected by automated systems before reaching viewers.
Globally, 163.9 million of the 189 million removals (86.7%) were handled by AI-driven moderation tools. TikTok also deleted 76,991,660 fake accounts worldwide and an additional 25,904,708 accounts suspected of belonging to users under 13 during the same three-month period.
Violative content continues to represent less than 1 percent of all uploads globally (approximately 0.7 percent in Q2 2025), a ratio TikTok says reflects the effectiveness of its proactive safeguards.
The report also introduced new transparency on LIVE monetization enforcement. Globally, TikTok issued warnings or demonetized 2,321,813 LIVE sessions and took action against 1,040,356 creators. In Nigeria, 49,512 LIVE sessions were banned for violating monetization rules.
Akinola Olojo, a Nigerian expert on preventing violent extremism and member of TikTok’s Sub-Saharan Africa Safety Advisory Council, welcomed the summit and the data release.
“The convening of stakeholders in Dakar and the sharing of concrete enforcement figures prove that the work we do alongside TikTok is not in vain,” Olojo said. “We must continue building proactive systems that empower communities to resist radicalisation and use online spaces for positive impact.”
The Dakar summit, held under TikTok’s #SaferTogether initiative, aimed to strengthen regional collaboration on content moderation, child safety, countering violent extremism, and election integrity ahead of upcoming votes in several West African countries.
TikTok says the discussions will directly inform future safety policies and moderation practices tailored to West African languages, cultures, and threat landscapes.
