…But if executed well, it is a boost to national resilience and sovereignty." What local hosting brings Beyond compliance, operators see wider economic implications. Agogbua described the directive as “the single most consequential policy signal for Nigeria’s digital infrastructure sector in a decade.” Reversing offshor…

…long-term operating costs," he added. Beyond the financial argument, Adebayo framed local hosting as a matter of national data sovereignty, which he said requires countries to take full responsibility for their data value chain, covering collection, management, storage and integrity assurance. "We cannot continue to ou…