Nigeria's data localisation deadline tests financial infrastructure
Localisation is fundamentally an engineering and governance hurdle rather than a simple real-estate mandate for servers.

Nigeria's data localisation deadline is testing the country's financial infrastructure, with the requirement framed as an engineering and governance challenge rather than simply a matter of housing servers domestically.
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