Nigeria sits at the centre of Africa’s global internet map. More than 360 terabits per second of subsea cable capacity land on its coastline, enough bandwidth to power a digital economy. In theory, the country has already won the connectivity battle. In practice, the story is very different. Across Nigeria, weak coordination, fragmented infrastructure and uneven investment mean that much of this capacity never reaches homes, schools and businesses. The result is a broadband ecosystem where international abundance coexists with local scarc
Nigeria sits at the centre of Africa’s global internet map. More than 360 terabits per second of subsea cable capacity land on its coastline, enough bandwidth to power a digital economy. In theory, the country has already won the connectivity battle. In practice, the story is very different. Across Nigeria, weak coordination, fragmented infrastructure and uneven investment mean that much of this capacity never reaches homes, schools and businesses. The result is a broadband ecosystem where international abundance coexists with local scarc