FG Launches e-learning Portals, Grants Free Access

In a bid to keep engaging students across the country during this lockdown, the Federal Government has launched free e-learning portals for all students in primary and secondary schools.

While announcing this in Abuja on Friday April 24, 2020, Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said, “All students in Nigeria have been granted free access to the following e-learning portals: the schoolgate learning center and the mobile classroom App.”

“These e-learning platforms have been declared subscription free for Nigerian students in primary and secondary levels during the period of this lockdown as necessitated by COVID-19 pandemic,” he added.

The portals offer all Nigerian students free access to online learning without data subscription for the period of suspension of academic activities in schools nationwide.

The minister noted that the timetable for online classes in all the states of the federation had been provided and could also be accessed on the ministry’s website.

Nwajiuba affirmed that the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, had partnered with telecommunication sectors and network providers in the country to grant the students free access to the portals on their mobile phones.

He concluded that the online learning is being coordinated by the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC in conjunction with the States Universal Basic Education Boards, SUBEB.