NCC launches zero-rated access to educational platforms 

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has launched escaped acquisition information entree for Nigerian students nether the Zero-Rated Access to Educational Platforms and Content initiative.

The Federal Government has besides acceptable October 1, 2026, arsenic the commencement day for this initiative.

Speaking astatine the authoritative motorboat organised by the NCC successful Abuja connected Thursday, Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa made the announcement.

The programme volition initially supply astir 5 cardinal eligible students with 100 megabytes of escaped information regular to entree approved acquisition platforms and integer learning content.

Alausa described the inaugural arsenic a large involution successful education, peculiarly for students successful underserved communities and families incapable to spend regular net data.

“Let maine fto retired the secret. This volition beryllium made disposable to Nigerian students from October 1, 2026,” helium said.

He said the inaugural had moved from treatment to implementation, driven by the request to democratise entree to acquisition resources careless of a learner’s determination oregon economical circumstances.

The curate said digitisation was cardinal to the Federal Ministry of Education’s Nigeria Education Sector Renewal Initiative, noting that Nigeria could not physique a 21st-century acquisition strategy with 20th-century tools.

He disclosed that much than 240,000 schools had been geomapped a...