The Federal Government has announced plans to invest $2 billion dollars to deploy 90,000kilometers fibre optic project in the country.
The project is designed to expand Nigeria’s fibre optic cable capacity from 35,000km to 125,000km, to boost terrestrial fibre optic backbone in Nigeria.
The Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, stated this on Monday in Kano on the sidelines of facility tour of the vandalised Digital Innovation Park.
It will be recalled that irate youths vandalised the model park during the nationwide protest in August.
Tijani said the investment would provide meaningful connectivity to communities ensuring that schools, hospitals, government establishments and businesses thrive in a digitally connected environment.
According to him, it will also accelerate growth across critical sectors of the economy including education, health, and agriculture.
