Nigeria is pushing to bring fully artificial intelligence-ready data centres online in 2026, betting that local compute capacity will anchor its digital economy, but industry executives warn that unreliable power and a shortage of skilled workers could undermine those ambitions.
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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.
