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For researchers across Nigeria and Africa, access to computational resources should not depend solely on their institution's ability to acquire and maintain expensive infrastructure. While longstanding challenges around procurement, electricity, funding, and technical capacity require sustained attention, researchers cannot afford to wait indefinitely for these problems to be resolved. One practical approach is to make existing resources more visible, accessible, and shareable across institutions through service catalogues, infrastructure-as-a-service models, and shared GPU pools. Institutions can also adopt appropriately scaled solutions, combining smaller local systems with access to regional computing facilities. These approaches can expand opportunities for research in health, agriculture, climate science, education, and artificial intelligence without requiring every institution to build and operate high-end infrastructure independently. For Nubian Research, the priority is to advance solutions that researchers can use today while contributing to the longer-term goal of sustainable, locally governed scientific infrastructure across Africa.