Nigeria’s drive to build a resilient digital economy suffered a major setback in 2025 as widespread fibre cuts, vandalism, and site-access disputes triggered more than 40,000 network disruptions in just eight months, exposing deep structural weaknesses in the country’s telecommunications backbon
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Royal Ibeh
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
