The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, disclosed that thousands of jobs can be created through initiatives like a certified installer/maintenance programme for Starlink and collaborating with hardware startups to produce repeater boxes locally.
The minister stated, on X (formerly Twitter), that he mentioned that to the Senior Director of Global Licensing and activation of SpaceX, Ryan Goodnight, on Sunday when they met on the sidelines of the ongoing International Telecommunication Union-World Radio Communication Conference in Dubai.
Tijani, who shared that Nigeria was now Starlink’s biggest market in Africa, said he discussed the issue of connecting unserved and underserved Nigerians and the possibility of creating new jobs with the SpaceX director.
According to data from the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC the firm, which officially launched in Nigeria in January 2023, now has 6,756 wireless Internet subscribers.
Nigeria was Starlink’s first African operational country and 47th globally.
