## Local Expertise Matters

Nigeria’s infrastructure has unique characteristics—intermittent connectivity, power challenges, regulatory requirements. Your partner needs to have solved these problems before, not learn on your project.

## Look Beyond the Migration

Migration is just the beginning. What happens after? Does your partner offer managed services? Can they optimize costs? Will they be there when something breaks at 2 AM?

## Technical Depth vs. Vendor Relationships

Some partners are really just resellers with a thin technical veneer. Others have deep engineering capabilities. Ask about their architecture review process and incident response procedures.

## Reference Checks

Talk to their existing customers. Not the logos on their website—actual people who’ve been through a migration with them. Ask what went wrong and how the partner handled it.

## The Questions to Ask

– How many Nigerian enterprise migrations have you completed?
– What’s your approach to data sovereignty and NDPR compliance?
– Can you describe your post-migration support model?
– What happens if we want to move to a different cloud provider later?

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