 Google and cable landing partner Indian Ocean Cable Company announced the landing in Lagos of the state-of-the-art Aquano subsea cable, which will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria's current and future international connectivity demands named after Nigerian born writer and abolitionist Olouda Equano, the Equano cable, will help support further digital transformation in Nigeria, a country which has produced five startup unicorns. Companies now valued at more than $1 billion in the past five years. For me, O'Neil Jeffery tells us more in this report. Internet availability and its use across Nigeria has not only connected but created and boosted a digital economy. The opportunities offered by digital penetration are limitless, top of which is job creation on the front and back ends of business. The recent landing of the Equano sea cable in Nigeria upskills improved data penetration at a cheaper rate nationwide. When you think about end-to-end internet connectivity, having this additional capacity really ensures that there is a drop in prices when you consider bandwidth going internationally. We will be looking to collaborate with different providers and telcos to carry that capacity, distribute that capacity internally. Now that's based on research and analysis, has the potential to bring down retail prices by over 20% and also offer six times more internet speed. Lagos is an attractive tech hub in Africa and the economic impact of this cable system will create more jobs and increase her GDP. Over the next three years, over 1.5 million jobs will be created by investments that we're launching here today and in direct GDP we're looking at investment of about 10 billion dollars into our GDP over the next three to four years. These are no small numbers at all and I think it's important that we realize that the economy of Nigeria is certainly moving away completely from an all dependent economy to a digital economy. Other than submarine cables use fiber optic technology, deployment of this new technology requires teaching locals new skill for effective penetration. We need here in Lagos people to man the landing station and make sure it's kept operationally in good order. So we have to have some specific skills to work on the equipment and we provide training for that and we'll be recruiting local people to work in the landing station and the data center and train them up as a very highly skilled role but we'll provide all that kind of training over the coming months. The Equino's cable is named after a Nigerian born writer and evolutionist, Oluwada Equino who was enslaved as a boy. The arrival of this cable in Lagos, Nigeria is Equino's symbolic return that will bring in flourishing new possibilities. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.