Nigeria will have to sustain one of Africa’s fastest digital infrastructure construction programmes by laying up to 90 kilometres of fibre-optic cable every day for nearly five years, if it is to deliver its flagship Project BRIDGE and meet ambitious broadband targets by 2030.
The scale of the challenge is laid bare in implementation documents for the federal government’s national fibre initiative, which call for about 17,500 kilometres of fibre to be deployed in the first year, followed by 25,000 kilometres annually in 2028 and 2029, before another 22,500 kilometres are completed during the first nine months of 2030.
At peak construction, contractors working simultaneously across six zones would need to install roughly 80 kilometres to 90 kilometres of fibre every day, a pace that industry analysts say will test Nigeria’s engineering capacity, regulatory coordination and ability to protect critical infrastructure.
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