Infrastructure & Policy
Kaliabe Journal
National systems made visible. Notes on Nigeria's compliance landscape, sovereign data infrastructure and the institutions that keep the record.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Eight
October to January is the execution window. Certified provider, localised payment data, the CBN cybersecurity self-assessment, and a current NDPC audit. A month-by-month calendar and a printable checklist.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Seven
The NITDA certified cloud register is scheduled for October 2026. The procurement playbook: how to pick a cloud provider that survives the CBN data localisation deadline of January 1, 2027.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Six
The three-environment model: onshore primary, onshore DR, offshore. Two boundaries, the replication path, workload placement and the latency trap. A playbook for a topology that works.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Five
84% of Nigeria's data centre capacity sits in one city. A Lagos-only onshore strategy replicates the single-region risk the hyperscalers eliminated. The migration plan needs a second site.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Four
Four layers (identity, networking, deployment, monitoring) must be designed before the first workload moves. The control plane takes three to four weeks with two engineers. Do not start migrating until it is set up and tested.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Three
The hardest design decision in a data localisation is deciding what to move. Three categories, a four-step classification process, four common mistakes, and what a complete classification looks like.
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Path to Green White Green — Article Two
Who in Nigeria's payments ecosystem is most exposed to the January 2027 deadline: banks carry scale and legacy, fintechs carry volume and concentration risk, and the talent gap underneath everything is the real bottleneck.
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Path to Green White Green — Article One
The CBN data residency deadline of January 2027 makes a national operating condition explicit: the payment record of Nigeria will be held in Nigeria. What the circular requires, and why sovereign data infrastructure is the compliance answer.