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Nigeria ranks 3rd in Africa’s internet affordability index

The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has ranked Nigeria third in its Africa Affordability Drivers Index, out of 27 countries studied by the group.

The Africa Regional Coordinator of the group, Onica Makwakwa, made the disclosure at the unveiling of the Africa Affordability Report 2017 in Lagos on Tuesday.

The report is an annual publication of A4AI, examining the policy and regulatory framework that had allowed some countries to make the internet more affordable, accessible and universal.

It suggested what other countries could do to catch up on internet affordability.

A detailed breakdown of the report showed that Mauritius topped the table with 61.70 per cent, followed by Morocco with 57.75 per cent.

Nigeria came third with 56.58 percent, with Botswana on the fourth position with 55.37 percent and Cote d’Ivoire scoring 53.25 per cent.

Rwanda is on the sixth position with 61.48 per cent, while South Africa scores 51.20 percent and Ghana, 50.01 per cent.

Benin and Kenya post 48.95 per cent and 48.82 per cent, respectively.

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According to the report, only five out of the 27 African countries have affordable internet– they are Mauritius, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan.

“Affordable internet is one Gigabyte (1GB) of mobile pre-paid data for two percent or less of average monthly income.

“However, 1GB of data costs an average citizen nearly 18 percent of their monthly income.

“Overall, African countries score less than five out of 10 in all policy areas, indicating the crucial need for improvement.”

The report cites the International Telecommunication Union as saying that only 25 percent of the African population is online.

It said that the continent had 16 per cent of mobile broadband penetration and that there was 23 per cent internet use gender gap in Africa.

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