Telecoms giant, 9mobile, has offered free access to educational and health contents on some websites for its customers.
The Executive Director, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Abdulrahman Ado, who disclosed this, said access to the websites ensure 9mobile customers remain connected to essential services.
According to Ado, health and education were two out of the three pillars of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes.
“The decision to focus on these two areas at this time is borne out of a desire to provide access to health and educational information and services, a critical requirement during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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“As a responsible organisation, we felt the need to support the increasing recourse to online learning by a growing number of academic institutions during this period of lockdown,” the Executive Director said.
The websites on the service include; Schoolgate, Mobile Classroom, National Open University, Khan Academy and Seesaw (in partnership with Federal Ministry of Education).
Others are; Mobihealth, World Health Organisation (WHO), Nigeria Health Watch, HealthLine, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), amongst others.
