Nigeria’s ambition to achieve 70 percent broadband penetration by the end of 2025, as outlined in the National Broadband Plan (NBP) 2020–2025, represents a bold vision for digital transformation, but the dream is increasingly at risk as penetration lingered at 48.01 percent in July 2025.
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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.
