Nigeria Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption Lasting Five Hours

Nigeria experienced a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption beginning on July 30, lasting for approximately five hours. The event, which started at 19:20 UTC and concluded around 00:30 UTC on July 31, primarily affected the visibility of network routing information.

Technical Details

The disruption registered a severity score of 396. The affected bgp.median signal, which measures the control plane visibility for network prefixes, showed a 1% drop from its peak value during the event. Other network telemetry signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume measurements, recorded minimal deviations, indicating the event was largely confined to the routing layer.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.