Nigeria experiences BGP control plane disruption lasting over two hours

Nigeria’s internet infrastructure registered a disruption in its control plane visibility on Tuesday, July 29, 2026. The event, which lasted approximately two and a half hours, was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.

Technical Details

The disruption began at 21:55 UTC on July 29 and concluded at 00:30 UTC on July 30, lasting 2.6 hours. The event recorded a severity score of 194. The primary affected metric was the BGP signal, which measures the control plane visibility and stability of advertised network prefixes. The signal’s median value dropped by approximately 2% from its peak during the observation period.

Other network telemetry signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter measurements, showed minor fluctuations but were not the primary indicators of this event. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Network connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.