to ensuring that hospitals and medical institutions have access to global information and resources necessary to fight Covid-19.
Also, telecom companies will sooner or later reciprocate the gesture by making their services especially data services more affordable to Nigerians. He said: “As Covid-19 evolves a new world order where more activities are conducted online and robust broadband access that is central is emerging. In effect, most of the state governors have appreciated the centrality of robust broadband infrastructure as work-from-home measures by the government persists.”
He continued, “The virtual meeting we are holding in place of our customary face-to-face engagement in previous parliaments in the past, is a testament to rapid change to our lifestyle occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is making telecommunications and indeed ICT the major driver of growth in every sector now.