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The national authorities has announced a large integer infrastructure task improvement aimed astatine connecting 20 cardinal Nigerians presently excluded from the integer economy.
According to the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, the authorities volition put successful “90,000 kilometres of fibre-optic network” and money “close to 7,000 telecom towers” to widen net entree nationwide.
Speaking during his keynote code astatine the 4th Nordic-Nigeria Connect 2025 successful Lagos, themed “Forging Partnerships for Sustainable Impact,” Dr. Tijani stated that the inaugural aligns with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
He said it reflects the administration’s extremity of delivering shared prosperity done inclusive and sustainable integer development.
“We are investing successful 90,000 kilometres of fibre-optic web to guarantee that we tin get the champion net to our radical careless of wherever they find themselves. We volition money adjacent to 7,000 telecom towers to bring astir 20 cardinal Nigerians presently unconnected contiguous into the integer economy.”
The curate further disclosed that a dedicated squad of professionals has been appointed to oversee the repositioning of Nigeria’s nationalist outer infrastructure to support, “effective net entree and integer services crossed agrarian and municipality areas. As entree to affordable and meaningful connectivity is nary longer a luxury but a necessity.”
Highlighting Nigeria’s demographic advantage, Tijani pointed to the country’s young and increasing colonisation arsenic an plus successful the integer age. He announced that the 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) programme, described arsenic the largest tech endowment inaugural successful the world, has received €12 cardinal successful enactment from the Danish authorities to further make Nigeria’s exertion workforce.
Tijani besides outlined the government’s absorption connected modernising nationalist work transportation done integer tools. “We person released our Digital Public Infrastructure Standard and Framework arsenic a usher to however exertion volition beryllium utilized to present nationalist services moving forward. With the close systems successful place, we tin conscionable our radical astatine their captious points of need,” helium stated.
He underscored the value of planetary cooperation, revealing that Nigeria is engaging with the Finnish authorities and, “exploring concern opportunities done platforms similar FinFund for large infrastructure projects.’’ He affirmed that Nordic partnerships are cardinal to Nigeria’s integer and improvement goals.
While signing a memorandum of knowing (MoU) with Denmark, Tijani explained the woody focuses connected aggregate pillars.
“This MoU successful peculiar volition absorption connected connectivity, what we tin bash to get a deeper connectivity successful Nigeria, some astatine the concern level but besides trade.
“It volition besides absorption connected what we volition telephone a sandbox for integer authorities initiative. Denmark is rather good known to beryllium highly innovative astir solutions to assistance amended our authorities successful serving its people.
“And we are looking to rapidly instrumentality and trial them successful our setting. Lastly, we besides privation to spot whether there’s accidental for young Nigerians to really beryllium capable to service and lend to the workforce of companies successful Denmark,’’ helium said.
The Deputy Chief of Staff to Lagos State Governor, Mr Samuel Egube who represented Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the authorities politician volition soon motorboat the Lagos-Nordic Innovation Corridor.
‘’The inaugural is designed to presumption Lagos arsenic the African gateway for Nordic solutions successful astute cities, greenish energy, integer health, and nutrient systems. This year’s variation of Nordic-Nigeria Connect is astir scaling partnerships, not conscionable starting conversations. With implicit 400 companies represented present today, this is simply a existent committedness to co-creation,” helium noted.
Nordic delegations reaffirmed their committedness to Nigeria’s development. Denmark’s State Secretary for Trade and Investment, H.E. Lina Gandløse Hansen, praised Nigeria’s potential, stating, “Denmark and Nigeria stock the values of innovation and sustainability. We judge this is Africa’s century, and we are acceptable to put and build.”
Officials from Finland, Sweden, and Norway echoed akin sentiments. Finland’s H.E. Jarno Syrjälä noted the alignment betwixt Nordic expertise and Nigeria’s improvement goals. Sweden’s Johan Frisell emphasised collaboration successful innovation and infrastructure. At the aforesaid time, Norway’s Ambassador Svein Baera stated that the Nordic-Nigeria concern “exemplifies a shared imaginativeness of sustainable development, empowering communities and ...
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