The CBN Data Rule Has a Satellite Question Nobody Is Asking
The CBN Data Rule Has a Satellite Question Nobody Is Asking On 15 June 2026, the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a circular directing that all payment transaction data generated…
Alignment, not harmonisation: A practical path to Africa’s digital integration
The ambition to establish an African Digital Single Market raises an immediate question: must every country adopt the same digital laws before businesses, data and services can move efficiently across…
The next Enterprise Risk in Africa is Infrastructure Readiness
For years, African enterprises treated digital infrastructure as a technical matter: something for IT teams, vendors and procurement departments to manage after business strategy had already been decided. Over the…
The Cloud is not borderless: The growing importance of data localisation in Nigeria
Article byBoluwatife Ekundayo, Aminat Adepoju, Kemisola Ajayi, and Christiana Okechukwu Introduction Cloud computing has transformed the modern digital economy by making information more accessible, adaptable, and efficient than ever before.…
Nigeria must align infrastructure, policy and demand to unlock AI opportunities, experts say
Nigeria cannot build a competitive AI economy on weak infrastructure. Industry leaders made this clear at the Infrastructure Solutions Roundtable: The Foundation Behind AI, Cloud & Connectivity, held in Abuja,…
Built for today, ready for tomorrow; inside Rack Centre’s 12MW facility
As global capital pools reassess digital infrastructure allocations, Nigeria’s foundational carrier-neutral hub is rewriting the pan-African playbook. The discourse surrounding African digital infrastructure is historically supply-driven, frequently dominated by sweeping…
Data Sovereignty: digital independence or digital collaboration?
A keynote panel at ITW Africa on the topic “The Question of Data Sovereignty: A Future of Digital Independence?” examined whether Africa’s push for data localization and ownership will drive…