Internet users in Nigeria declined by 9.32 million subscribers representing 7.99 per cent, in one year, as data from the National Bureau of Statistics revealed.
The bureau said this in a report titled ‘Telecoms Data (Q2,Q3,Q4 2021)’ which was posted on its website on Monday.
A breakdown of the report showed that a total of 141,971,560 subscribers were active on the internet in the fourth quarter of 2021, as against 154,301,195 in the same period of 2020, representing a 7.99 per cent decrease in internet subscriptions year-on-year.
The NBS also stated that Lagos State had the highest number of subscribers in terms of active voice per state in the fourth quarter of 2021, followed by Kano and Ogun states while Bayelsa and Ebonyi states had the least number of subscribers.