The Federal Government has granted free subscription to e-learning to Nigerian students for use during the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, who disclosed this during the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing in Abuja, said the initiative through partnership with some major network providers in the country grants access to some selected sites for free lectures.
Nwajiuba said right now, Airtel users can browse the sites for free while MTN and Glo are still adjusting their technical system for their subscribers to access the free site, adding that both Radio and Television stations could also be accessed for the lecture.
He said the online classes were conducted like the offline, adding that the classes could be taken in real time if the students were online and they could also get the lectures after the classes were over and such student was not online at such time.
He said what the ministry was doing was to synchronise them in order to meet the yearnings of the students during the lockdown period occasioned by COVID-19.
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