• MTN Nigeria Executives L-R Roger Shutte: General Manager for Infrastructure, Shoyinka: Shodunke Chief Information officer, Karl Toriola: CEO
MTN Nigeria today, July 1, 2025, launched what it describes as West Africa’s largest Tier III data centre—and one of the largest in Africa.
TechPoint Africa reports that the data centre is named after MTN Nigeria’s former CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa, in tribute to the man it said paved the way for the telecom operator’s success in Nigeria.
The facility has a capacity of nine megawatts and is equipped with cloud infrastructure that the telco claims rivals offerings from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
The company has launched the first phase of the data centre, which delivers 4.5 megawatts of capacity.
The second phase will be introduced based on demand for computing power.
Yahaya Ibrahim, MTN Nigeria’s Chief Technical Officer, said that both phases are valued at $235 million, while the cloud infrastructure alone costs $20 million.
