{"id":302,"date":"2024-07-09T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=302"},"modified":"2024-07-09T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:21:56","slug":"video-nigeria-invests-2bn-to-keep-kids-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-nigeria-invests-2bn-to-keep-kids-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Nigeria Invests $2bn to Keep Kids in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nigeria Invests $2bn to Keep Kids in Schools\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LpuLYZiSZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to Watch, Like, Share &amp; Subscribe &#x2764;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4af;&#x1f44d;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Federal Government says that it is investing two billion dollars in technology to improve student\u2019s enrollment and equip teachers to reduce the number of out-of-school children nationwide<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy,\u00a0\u2018Bosun Tijani said the Federal Government has approved a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to support the deployment of an additional 90,000km of fibre optic cable for universal access to the internet across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said the project would increase Nigeria\u2019s fibre optic cable capacity from 35,000 kilometres to 125,000 km, making it Africa\u2019s third-longest terrestrial fibre optic backbone behind South Africa and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>He said the deployment will start in the next eight to 12 months as the government has started putting together the $2bn fund needed to achieve the project.<\/p>\n<p>Tijani said the project would strengthen internet connectivity in schools, hospitals and critical institutions once it was deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Tijani identified a lack of investment on the capacity of teachers as frustrating Government\u2019s target to improve education in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Swifteradio.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t forget to Watch, Like, Share &amp; Subscribe &#x2764;&#xfe0f;&#x1f4af;&#x1f44d; Nigeria\u2019s Federal Government says that it is investing two billion dollars in technology to improve student\u2019s enrollment and equip teachers to reduce the number of out-of-school children nationwide The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy,\u00a0\u2018Bosun Tijani said the Federal Government has approved a special purpose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}