Lucas Ajanaku
Telecoms service provider, 9mobile, on Tuesday said it has granted free access to health and educational website for its customers. It said the service is aimed at mitigating the impact of the lockdown and restricted movements as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Access to these websites, it explained, ensures that 9mobile customers and Nigerians remain connected and have more access to basic essential services which they require.
Some of the pre-selected websites on this service include Educational Sites, such as Schoolgate, MobileClassroom, (in partnership with Federal Ministry of Education), National Open University, KhanAcademy and Seesaw.
Also are Health-related sites, such as Mobihealth, World Health Organisation (WHO), Nigeria Health Watch, HealthLine, and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Its Executive Director, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Abdulrahman Ado, explained that health and education are two out of the three pillars of 9mobile’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. 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,” Ado said.
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