#MWA2015: Facebook’s Internet.org is coming to Nigeria in May

Following its successful  launch in Zambia, Kenya and Ghana, social media giant Facebook, yesterday, announced plans to launch Internet.org app next month in Nigeria.

Announcing the plan for Nigeria, Head of Public Policy (Africa) at Facebook, Ebele Okobi, told participants at the Mobile West Africa 2015 conference, that the imminent launch in Nigeria follows similar ones in other African countries including Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya.

“We are still looking for content partners and it will be great to get recommendations on specific platforms to be on the app,” Okobi said “People are not just looking at Facebook, they are looking at all sorts of contents — they are looking at a rich array of local content which I think is great.”

She stressed that the social media platform is succeeding for the same reasons across the world.

The Internet.org app encourages telecoms to provide free and affordable access to certain web services like Facebook and Wikipedia.