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The West African nation launched financing, procurement, and infrastructure policies to boost its sovereign cloud initiative and increase domestic technical knowledge.
August 26, 2026
Nigeria took the initial concrete steps this month toward creating its own sovereign data centers and cloud services, as more African nations accelerate the digitalization of their economies with an eye toward cybersecurity.
Last week, the western African nation established the Joint Technical Committee of the National Sovereign Cloud Initiative (JTC-NSCI), an effort to expatriate data back within its borders and to break its reliance on foreign data storage and cloud providers. The sovereign cloud initiative is also designed to boost national security and help Nigeria create a deep expertise, Kashifu Inuwa, director general of NITDA and co-chairman of the JTC-NSCI, said in an Aug. 20 statement.
