Nigeria’s drive to build a resilient digital economy suffered a major setback in 2025 as widespread fibre cuts, vandalism, and site-access disputes triggered more than 40,000 network disruptions in just eight months, exposing deep structural weaknesses in the country’s telecommunications backbone and undermining national broadband targets.
The scale of the crisis was laid bare in October, 2025 by Dr. Aminu Maida, executive vice chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), when he disclosed that between January and August 2025 alone, o
