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Nigeria scores 60/100 (Grade C), ranking 8th of 54 African markets and up 2 points since Jan 2026. Its strongest pillar is Market Demand at 86 of 100, with one of five pillars rated green. Its largest drag is Connectivity & Fibre, at 43 of 100.
Each pillar carries its own strength out of 100, banded red, amber or green. Arrows mark movement since the previous snapshot.
The composite out of 100 is the weighted sum of these five pillars. A pillar’s figure is its own strength out of 100, measured against the most that pillar could contribute, which is what the red, amber and green bands read against. Full method
Each axis is a pillar as a share of its own maximum, so a balanced market reads as a regular pentagon and a lopsided one as a spike. Hover a point for the exact figure.
Composite readiness across the last six snapshots. Every snapshot is rescored under the current methodology (v1), so points are comparable even as weights evolve.
| Snapshot | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2024 | 57 | C · Emerging |
| Jul 2024 | 58 | C · Emerging |
| Jan 2025 | 58 | C · Emerging |
| Jul 2025 | 58 | C · Emerging |
| Jan 2026 | 58 | C · Emerging |
| Jul 2026 | 60 | C · Emerging |
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Airtel is putting $120m into a 38MW facility at Eko Atlantic, designed for AI compute rather than general cloud storage, and targeted to be operational by the end of 2026. It would be the largest data centre in Nigeria and the first of five hyperscale sites the group has flagged for Africa.
NCC board chairman Idris Olorunnimbe and executive vice chairman Aminu Maida visited Airtel’s Lekki facility for a briefing on infrastructure and network expansion plans. Visits like this are the visible end of operator-regulator alignment, which is what decides how fast new capacity clears approval.
Kasi Cloud, backed by Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund, is building a $250m hyperscale campus in Lekki against a grid that has never sustained more than about 6GW for 230m people. Diesel backup puts operators near $0.40 to $0.50 per kWh where competing markets pay $0.05 to $0.10, which is the gap the 320MW national pipeline has to absorb.