Nigeria’s $2 Billion Fibre Gamble: World Bank Milestones, EU Backing, and the Right-of-Way Problem That Could Derail Africa’s Most Ambitious Broadband Project
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Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE will extend the national fibre backbone from 35,000km to 125,000km using $2 billion in milestone-linked financing. The architecture is sound. The barriers — right-of-way, vandalism, power — are not.
