{"id":63392,"date":"2025-03-27T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63392"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:58:32","slug":"address-soaring-data-costs-senate-charges-communications-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/27\/address-soaring-data-costs-senate-charges-communications-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Address Soaring Data Costs, Senate Charges Communications Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has urged the Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy to intervene in the recent hike in data costs, calling for urgent discussions with telecom providers to ease the financial burden on citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution followed a motion by Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong (APC-Cross River) during plenary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that some telecom companies had raised data prices by up to 200 percent, making internet access increasingly unaffordable, especially for young digital entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio backed the motion, stressing that affordable internet is essential for economic growth and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate directed the minister to engage telecom providers on price reductions, develop policies for affordable data, and explore subsidized or free internet access for students, entrepreneurs, and tech innovators.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Communications was also tasked with investigating the causes of high data prices and proposing lasting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Nigerian Senate has urged the Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy to intervene in the recent hike in data costs, calling for urgent discussions with telecom providers to ease the financial burden on citizens. The resolution followed a motion by Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong (APC-Cross River) during plenary on Wednesday. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63394,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63392\/revisions\/63394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}