Yemi Osinbajo Canvasses More Access To Internet

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has asked state governors to democratise access to the internet in line the Federal Government’s objective of broadband connectivity for all by 2023. Osinbajo said it was part of the national commitment to make broadband connectivity available to all.

The Vice-President recalled that the state governors under the auspices of the National Economic Council had in 2017 agreed to harmonise right of way charges payable by telecommunications companies and related public utility infrastructure on local governments, states and federal highways to encourage co-location of the companies’ fiber optic cables.

He spoke virtually on Thursday during the inauguration of the Ogun State Digital Economy Empowerment Project.

Osinbajo described Governor Dapo Abiodun’s initiative as a critical issue of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s goal of broadband connectivity for all by means of 2023.

He defined that FG had similarly released the National Broadband Plan designed to “deliver records download speeds across Nigeria of a minimal 25Mbps in urban areas and 10Mbps in rural regions, with powerful coverage available to at the least ninety in step with cent of the populace by means of 2025 at less costly expenses.”

He said, “We have to press on in our quest to democratise get entry to to the internet. We are pursuing this motive because we understand that net get entry to and broadband penetration becomes existential in some brief years and could decide our competitiveness in the international financial system.”

In his comments, Abiodun explained that the digital financial system changed into to formally deepen the diverse blessings of statistics technology advancements into all sectors and making ICT one essential factor of our economic system.

[NewsNaira]


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