Nigeria, Sept. 15 -- The National Information Technology Development Agency has called for increased investment in Nigeria's data centre infrastructure as the country's growing digital economy continues to drive demand for computing, storage and connectivity capacity.
The NITDA Director-General, Kashifu Inuwa, made the call during a panel session titled, "Converting Digital Demand into Data Centre Investment," at the recently concluded ITW Data Cloud Africa 2026.
The session brought together executives from Digital Realty Nigeria, Equinix, Africa Hyperscalers and Oracle to examine how rising digital demand could translate into investment in infrastructure needed to support cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other digital service...