Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on June 7, 2018, 7:42 PM

The good people of Business Day quoted me today on a piece on data center localization in Nigeria. You can read the full piece here.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a professor of technology does not see any competitive advantage in localizing data. For him, the House move – should it be enforced by federal government – will only stifle the growth of technology startups.

“Most Nigerian start-ups host their data outside Nigeria because the local alternatives are largely more expensive,” Ekekwe wrote in a post. He further notes that the enforcement could compel many startups would reincorporate in US, and then pay US taxes even though the customers are Nigerian customers.