NCC opens free digital learning pathways with zero-rated access to educational platforms, content initiative

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has launched the Zero-Rated Data Access to Educational Platforms and Content inaugural to grow entree to learning resources, span acquisition inequalities and enactment the country’s semipermanent economical maturation by investing successful quality capital.

The Zero-Rated Data Access to Educational Platforms and Content, which was launched on Thursday, is simply a coordinated nationalist attack to improving affordable and equitable entree to integer acquisition crossed Nigeria and is besides aligned with Nigeria’s broader integer system objectives.

Under the initiative’s Operator-Sponsored Model, eligible users volition person up to 100 megabytes of escaped regular information allowance to entree designated acquisition platforms which means a learner receiving the escaped 100MB would bask astir 700MB of acquisition information each week, astir 3GB each month, and up to 36.5GB annually.

Speaking connected the motorboat of the programme, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida, explained that the initiative, which provides learners with escaped entree to approved acquisition platforms, is portion of broader efforts by the authorities to equip Nigerians with integer skills and knowledge.

Maida said the programme aligns with President Bola Tinubu’s imaginativeness of gathering a $1 trillion economy, which helium said depends heavy connected processing the country’s quality capital. “We request to admit however crit...