Nigeria, April 13 -- The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $200 million loan to the government of Nigeria to advance a flagship initiative to deploy 90,000 kilometres of open-access fibre nationwide, expand digital skills, and drive job creation across the country.Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and West Africa's largest market, and with the digital economy increasingly a major contributor to GDP, the Digital Value Chain Infrastructure for Boosting Employment (D-VIBE) Project is expected to close connectivity gaps and support productivity and job creation. It will achieve this by extending Nigeria's national fibre backbone from around 30,000 km to about 120,000 km, connecting all 774 Local Gov...