11/02/2024
15.9m Students Spend N159bn On Mobile Data Monthly
Nigerians students in senior secondary schools and undergraduates in various Nigeriaβs higher institutions are spending an estimated N159 billion cumulatively on mobile phone data monthly.
According to available data, there are an average of 13.9million students in public and private senior secondary schools nationwide and another two million undergraduates scattered across the nationβs higher institutions.
Many of the students that ππΈβππππβππ βπΌβπβππΌβπ spoke to admit that they now spend an average of N10,000 per month on data as a result of the current high level of data depletion experienced across the four major telecom companies in the country.
This amounts to 15.9 million students who spent about N159 billion, translating to an average of N10,000 per student monthly on mobile data, ππΈβππππβππ βπΌβπβππΌβπ findings revealed.
Further investigations revealed that the virtual teaching and learning now being adopted by some secondary schools, universities, polytechnics and other higher institutions had further increased data consumption of students post-Covid-19.
This is in addition to the contents consumed by these same students on social media, especially, on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, instagram and twitter, among others.
