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Tetracore and Huawei Plan 20MW Gas-powered Data Center in Nigeria

West African energy firm Tetracore Energy Group plans a $400 million data center in Nigeria in partnership with Huawei and Inspirive Technologies.The planned 20MW facility will be located at Tetracore’s energy park in Atakobo, Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, and is designed to meet Tier III ...

March 26, 2026

Nigeria

9Mobile blames network outage on data center fire in Lagos

Nigerian mobile network operator 9Mobile has blamed a network outage this week on a fire incident at its main data center in Lagos. The fire is said to have happened on Tuesday night (December 17), leading to network issues for 9Mobile's customers yesterday. Its customers have taken to social...

December 19, 2024

Nigeria

WIOCC secures green financing to fund OADC roll-out

Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable ...

June 21, 2024

Nigeria

Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center

Airtel Africa this week officially broke ground on a new facility in Lagos’s Victoria Island. The facility will deliver 38MW and is expected to be live by the first quarter of 2026. It will also be the first of five hyperscale data centers developed by Airtel Africa on the continent through N...

March 13, 2024

Lagos

IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria

Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...

February 12, 2024

Nigeria

Nigeria's NIPSS requests that customs establish a data facility

The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies suggests the Nigeria Customs Service create a trade modeling data center. They have also advocated for establishing a pension institute for retired officials. NIPSS Director General Prof. Ayo Omotayo made this assertion during a courtesy ...

September 18, 2023

Nigeria

Data Center Fire Causes Zenith Bank Disruption in Nigeria

Per a report by TechCabal, the power backup system at Zenith Bank in Nigeria was damaged by fire, which resulted in a blackout at the data center. The outage began at seven in the morning, affecting customers, and majority of the bank's services were down. According to TechCabal, the bank did ...

May 04, 2023

Nigeria

New Hybrid Data Center to Boost Student Learning in Nigeria

The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has commissioned a new hybrid data center at the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara. The new facility is expected to provide students with access to the latest technology and help improve their learning experience. According to the President...

April 18, 2023

Nigeria

Nigerian President Unveils Kano's Tier 4 Data Center

President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 41-terabyte countrywide tier-4 Data Center in Kano on Monday. During the ceremony, Prof. Ali Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that the data center was the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and the finest in the co...

April 10, 2023

Nigeria

Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

The Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has announced that it is launching a Tier IV data center into the public and private sector space, in order to boost its digital infrastructure. In a statement, the agency said: “The infrastructure has been specifically built to respond to the desire of its growing b...

September 05, 2022

Nigeria

Kasi Cloud breaks ground on new Lagos hyperscale data center

Kasi Cloud has announced that it has broken ground on a new hyperscale data center in Lagos, Nigeria. A ceremony to celebrate this milestone was recently held in Lekki, Lagos, attended by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Sovereign Inve...

April 21, 2022

Nigeria

Acronis launches its first cloud data center in Nigeria

Acronis has announced that it has launched its first cloud data center in Lagos, Nigeria. This move is part of a larger expansion plan that will see the company grow with the deployment of 111 new centers. It is also part of its Acronis Global/Local Initiative. This initiative reportedly inclu...

February 15, 2022

Nigeria

Africa Data Centres launches data center in Lagos

Africa Data Centres has announced the opening of a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The data center, namely LOS1 will have a capacity of 10MW, with six data halls, and spanning 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft). According to the company, the facility will serve as the West African Hub for the compan...

November 30, 2021

ADC Lagos LOS1

Cloud Exchange launches new data centre in Nigeria

Cloud Exchange has announced that it has teamed up with telecommunications giant, Huawei, to launch Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data center. The facility is located in Lagos, and Nigeria’s growing digital economy has driven its development. Commenting on t...

October 06, 2021

Nigeria

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