Nigeria in Advanced Talks With Google for New Undersea Cable

Nigeria is in advanced talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Google for a new undersea cable to strengthen the West African nation’s digital resilience, a senior government official said.

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.”