Airtel, UNICEF to connect 100,000 children to digital education in Nigeria

Telecommunications firm, Airtel Africa, is set to roll out a digital learning initiative in Nigeria.

Planned, in partnership with United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), it will connect 100,000 children to the Learning Passport, an online resource, over the next five years.

Airtel, with a presence in 14 countries in Africa, has over 50 million subscribers in Nigeria, its biggest market.

Airtel Africa’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Segun Ogunsanya, in a statement, yesterday, said 100 schools would be connected yearly in the country, as part of the five-year $57 million partnership with UNICEF signed in October 2021.

Ogunsanya said the partnership aims to provide access to education to at least one million disadvantaged children, mostly in rural and hard-to-reach communities across 13 of its 14 country operations in Africa.