In its resolve to become Nigeria’s number one mobile Internet operator, Airtel Nigeria has announced an empowerment initiative to create awareness for ICT usage in rural areas across the country.
The programme tagged: Boost ICT Usage in Rural Areas, is packaged to help consumers living in or visiting the designated locations in the underserved communities have first-hand experience of the company’s unequalled data services with no financial implications to them.
Airtel’s Chief Commercial Officer, Maurice Newa, who made this known, said the initiative was designed to bridge the gap between consumers in the rural settings and the world of opportunities available to them.
Hear him: “there is a lot going on across the globe which ordinarily may fall outside the scope of the rural dwellers but which, if they are given the right access, may bring their dreams to fulfilment. So we are providing this trusted platform for them to achieve more.”
The service provider said the programme will help facilitate ICT/Data penetration in the country’s rural settlements. At the moment, Nigeria has 55,930,391 mobile internet users out of a population of 174,507,539 representing 32.9% penetration rate with heavy concentration in the urban areas.
Beginning with rural communities in Ebonyi, the Airtel ICT train is expected to register its presence in rural communities in Imo, Enugu, Benue, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Cross Rivers, Bayelsa and Rivers. Other rural communities where it is expected to berth include those in Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Kwara, Oyo, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory.
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