Inside Nigeria’s Plan to Build a Regional Cloud Economy from Investment to Sovereignty

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr ‘Bosun Tijani, has unveiled the National Digital Cloud Policy , a framework built to attract $750 million in private investment into cloud and data infrastructure within 24 months while positioning Nigeria as the primary hosting hub for West Africa. The policy tackles a long-standing coordination problem that has historically prevented Nigeria from attracting infrastructure capacity proportional to its market size, laying o