Internet data usage across Nigeria has dropped significantly following a recent 50 per cent tariff hike by telecommunications companies, which saw a sharp rise in the cost of telecommunications services. Latest telecoms industry statistics released by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) revealed that the Internet data consumption in Nigeria dropped from 1,000,930.60 terabytes in January to 983,283.43 terabytes in April. This reflects a 17,647 terabytes decrease (1.76 per cent) over the three-month period. The statistics showed that from the 1,000,930.60 terabytes of data consumption as of the beginning of the