At a Lagos forum in September 2026, telecom expert Chidi Ajuzie placed Nigeria's digital future before a simple but demanding mirror: a nation of nearly 200 million connected mobile users still lacks the fibre backbone to carry them into the broadband age. The gap is not merely technical — it is a product of policy choices that have treated infrastructure as a source of immediate revenue rather than as the foundation of long-term prosperity. What Ajuzie proposed was not a repair but a reorientation, asking government, regulators, and industry to see themselves as co-architects of a shared nati