FG Crashes Data Price By 50 Percent

The Nigerian government said it has crashed the price of data by more than 50%.

News Rain Nigeria gathered that the reduction was as a result of a directive put in place by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, should put in place measures to effect.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by Femi Adeluyi, the Technical Assistant to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr Isa Ibrahim Pantami, the price of data of 1GB has been reduced from 1000 naira to 487 naira beginning from last November 2020.

FG Crashes Data Price By 50 Percent

According to the Minister the reduction was in line with the directive he gave to the regulatory agency (NCC) to put measures in place to reduce the average cost of data in the country.

He said: “The average cost of 1GB of data has reduced from the January 2020 cost of N1,000 to N487.18 in November, 2020.

“This was based on a report by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) submitted to the Honourable Minister following the implementation of the directives.”

It will be recalled that Nigerians have been recurrently complaining about the cost of data, which many agreed that it is relatively high compared with other countries.