There are quite a lot of infrastructures and social amenities that the government of Nigeria should look into. There are strong rumors of protests holding tomorrow August 1st 2024, and it's not just because of these infrastructures which our dear nation is in dare need of, but also because of the hunger and inflation in the nation. So if I should talk about things that are not working in the country I would definitely have a lot to talk about. However, I would like to look into one of which has become an everyday challenge in our society. The cost of living is currently very high, but at this point I'm not just talking about food.
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Yes we need food to survive, but there's something else a good number of us can not survive with and it is becoming more expensive by the day. A lot of Nigerians will agree that if you should calculate the amount of money spent on data alone, it can make a person a millionaire. Like the common saying around here; ”data is life” but then again it's not cheap. Today my company exhausted the data subscription for the month which was supposed to last till the 9th of August. This situation has placed me on a hot seat with my Boss tomorrow as I would have to explain how the data got exhausted. Although I've been crying out loud about the way windows update takes 70% of the data we subscribe to monthly, it's something that can not be avoided.
The major issue here is that my boss wants me to be a magician and ensure that the company spends low on data and still has enough data to spare. But this is Nigeria, and such things do not happen. If you get unlimited data there's usually a frustrating network issue, and if you want a network with 90% chances of not having downtime their data plans are usually capped, or use radio to radio networks. There are usually two kinds of networks prominent in Nigeria, the first is the end to end network that usually has annoying downtimes and high data cost along with capped data plans, and the second is the radio network which can be disrupted by any physical thing like buildings and trees and even airplanes.
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Nigeria has a network provider called Glo, but it turns out that glo is the second useless network we can have after 9mobile. Truth is all the networks are useless, but they are all useless in categories. If the government could create a good network system that would enable us to use the Internet without worrying about downtime or how much we're spending on data, it would really do us good. I would prefer to subscribe for a week and be able to do whatever I wish online without having to worry about it getting finished. How wish the data subscription can be like Netflix subscription, pay a certain amount and browse as you like even for the common man