Nigeria’s leading connectivity and digital infrastructure executives will meet behind closed doors in Lagos on December 11 for a strategy workshop convened by Africa Hyperscalers, as the industry confronts the limits of fragmented network buildout and a stubbornly low fixed broadband penetration rate of just under six percent.
The session, an invitation-only gathering of startups, operators, regulators, and major infrastructure providers, is expected to focus on how shared systems, co-build frameworks, and deeper collaboration can accelerate deployment economics and extend high-capacity networks beyond urban centres. It follows discussions at the organisation’s flagship Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025 conference, but takes on a more tactical tone aimed at generating consensus among the country’s most influential decision-makers.
Nigeria has witnessed significant investment in subsea cables, national backbone fibre and metro networks over the past half-decade, including the landing of the 2Africa submarine cable. Yet organisers say the digital dividend remains constrained because capacity is not moving inland at the pace required to close the access gap.
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In a statement, Africa Hyperscalers noted that “the completion of 2Africa marked more than a cable landing,as it signaled a new era of collaboration and continental connectivity. The real test before us is not capacity at the shore, but capacity inland.”
The group added that the same ambition that united global operators at the coastline must now be replicated across terrestrial backbones, metro rings and last-mile systems if Nigeria is to fully unlock the value of recent investments.
Speakers scheduled for the workshop include, Dr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA); Engr. Ganiyu Olatunji Oseni, special adviser to the governor on Innovation and Broadband, Lagos state; Temitayo Oyeleke, associate director, IHS Towers; Josephine Sarouk, managing director, Bayobab Nigeria; Lanre Ore, chief executive officer, Fiber One Broadband; Muhammed Rudman, chief executive officer, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria.
Other confirmed attendees include senior representatives from ntel, Open Access Data Centres, ipNX, Tizeti, Africa Data Centres, Dimension Data, Broadbased Communications, TelCables Nigeria, IXPN, Avanti, WTES, Broadbased and Nokia, among others.
The workshop aims to align leadership around models linking subsea gateways to terrestrial backbones, metro rings, Internet exchange infrastructure, and last-mile systems. The programme is invitation-only, a structure intended to enable frank, outcome-focused dialogue among decision-makers positioned to determine how – and how quickly – the country expands digital access.
