Nigeria Pushes for Local Smartphone Manufacturing to Boost Digital Access

Nigeria is seeking to attract global smartphone manufacturers to establish production facilities in the country as part of efforts to improve device affordability, expand digital inclusion and strengthen local industrial capacity. The call was made by Idris Olorunnimbe, Executive Chairman of Outbox Advisory Limited, during the Digital Africa Summit Roundtable held alongside the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai. He emphasized that solving Africa’s smartphone affordability challenge requires c