When the Meta-backed 2Africa submarine cable landed at Qua Iboe Beach in Akwa Ibom State on February 20, 2024, it quietly rewrote a decades-old rule about Nigeria’s Internet geography. For the first time, an international subsea cable system touched Nigerian soil outside Lagos. For a country of more than 200 million people whose global Internet traffic has historically flowed through a narrow corridor in Lagos, the landing was strategic. And for Equinix, which facilitated the landing through its subsidiary MainOne, it was the foundation of something bigger: building a second digital anchor for Nigeria in the South-South region. In the past two years, Equinix has moved beyond the cable landing itself. It has built a modular cable landing station, rolled out roughly 250 kilometres of new t...