Nigeria - Poor scores across all domains

Nigeria rises one rank from the bottom of the resource and efficiency- driven economies on the Connectivity Scorecard 2010. However this climb seems superficial at best, as the country lags behind its peers on virtually every metric indicating that it has been able to make very little use of its resources.

Nigeria posts very poor scores on the business and government-related metrics. The former has a greater impact considering its higher weightage on the Connectivity Scorecard, pulling down the country’s overall score and contributing to its dismal ranking.

The consumer sector is the only area where Nigeria puts up a relatively decent performance. Compared to its fixed-line penetration rate of around 1 per cent, Nigeria’s mobile phone penetration rate is fairly impressive at 42 per cent. However, with only 0.1 percent households having access to broadband services, Nigeria has immense potential for future growth. Going forward, it is expected that Nigeria’s recently privatized incumbent operator, Nitel, will compete more aggressively and effectively in the future, and that a new unified licensing regime allowing all operators to provide both fixed and mobile services, will accelerate market growth.

Nigeria Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component