After leapfrogging mobility – can Africa get AI-ready?

Africa’s next technology surge will be measured in data, compute, and skills - not SIM cards, stressed a high-level panel at Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025, asking whether the continent can pivot from mobile-first success to…

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Nigeria requires $10 billion annually to tackle energy poverty – experts.

The Africa Energy Conference 2025, held at the Lagos Business School, convened policymakers, investors, and industry executives to address one of Africa’s most pressing development challenges: delivering reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy to a…

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Power ‘No Longer a Problem’ for African Data Centers.

Nigeria’s data-center leaders say power generation is no longer the biggest obstacle to scaling digital infrastructure - reliability and distribution are. That was the consensus at the Hyperscalers Convergence Africa conference in Lagos, where industry…

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Africa must Harness Data and Computing Power to Develop AI – NITDA DG.

The Director-General of Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has urged African nations to build up their own data sets and computing infrastructure to fully harness artificial intelligence…

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Africa’s data ambition meets its defining test at Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025.

Executives from Africa’s digital infrastructure, telecom, and cloud industries gathered in Lagos on Tuesday for Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025, calling for urgent reforms to unlock the continent’s next phase of digital…

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