Nigeria is in advanced talks with Alphabet’s Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) for a new undersea cable to strengthen the West African nation’s digital resilience, a senior government official told Bloomberg News.
The country wants to augment existing undersea links with Europe, said Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general and chief executive officer of the National Information Technology Development Agency, who called Nigeria’s current reliance on cables that follow the same path “a single point of failure.”
Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) earlier this year said it plans to expand its digital presence significantly in Africa with the development of four new strategic subsea cable connectivity hubs in the north, south, east, and west regions of the continent.