Why Nigeria must strengthen internet infrastructure for AI, cloud growth

Nigeria’s growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, fintech, streaming, and other digital services is putting fresh pressure on the country’s internet infrastructure, with industry stakeholders calling for stronger interconnection, network resilience, and technical capacity to support the next phase of the digital economy.
The challenge is coming into sharper focus as the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) marks 20 years of building the country’s internet infrastructure and facilitating local exchange of internet traffic.
Established in 2006 as a neutral platform for internet service providers, telecommunications operators, content providers, data centr...