Nigeria Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption
Nigeria experienced a disruption in its internet control plane on the evening of August 14, 2026, lasting nearly three hours. The event, which began around 21:45 UTC, primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, a key mechanism for routing traffic across the global internet.Technical…
Nigeria experienced a disruption in its internet control plane on the evening of August 14, 2026, lasting nearly three hours. The event, which began around 21:45 UTC, primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, a key mechanism for routing traffic across the global internet.
Technical Details
The disruption recorded a severity score of 326. The BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes to the global routing system, showed a 3% drop from its peak value during the event. The disruption period lasted from 21:45 UTC on August 14 to 00:30 UTC on August 15.
Other network signals showed concurrent but less severe deviations. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 network blocks, recorded a 7% drop. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity based on backscatter measurements, showed a 36% decline from its peak.
Reported Cause
The cause of the disruption has not been publicly attributed.
Network conditions were reported as restored by the end of the observation window.
