Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Networks Limited is a subsidiary of Airtel Africa Plc, a Pan-African telecommunications company with operations in 14 countries across Africa. They are a leading telecommunications services provider located in Lagos and are ranked amongst the top three mobile service providers in Nigeria. With a customer base of more than 50 million subscribers, they made a revenue of 3,422,000 dollars in 2020. The company’s product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, Home Broadband and enterprise services.

They are well known for their stellar effort in the advertisement of their brand.

CSR Initiatives

Airtel Networks Limited is inteNGXly interested and committed to supporting laudable causes through its Corporate Social Investment initiatives in Nigeria. Leveraging on its award-winning Touching Lives programme, Adopt-a-School initiative and Employee Volunteer Scheme, it has invested both financial and material resources to assist many communities as well as uplift underprivileged people across Nigeria.

With a vision to become Nigeria’s most loved brand, Airtel’s concept of social responsibility is not limited to a concern with welfare schemes, charity work, or the occasional support for Health, Education, Security/Emergency, Sports, and the Arts. Airtel partners with the government in the provision of education for less privileged children. As part of its social investment in Nigeria, it initiated a partnership with the Ministry of Education to build and maintain schools, where rural children across the country will be provided free education and free books. In May 2011, the company commissioned its first Adopted School, Oremeji Primary School 2 in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ajegunle, Lagos State.

It has transformed the lives of thousands of underprivileged kids, built and renovated schools from the Interiors of Ediba, a community in Cross Rivers State through Oke-Agbo, a community in Ogun State and Amumara, a community in Mbaise, Imo State to Ajegunle, popular Lagos Community. In all, the company has invested millions of naira completing multi-million naira renovation projects and has donated hundreds of thousands of notebooks, textbooks, school uniforms and other learning materials. While it has maintained a robust capacity building programme for hundreds of primary school teachers to ensure quality education is delivered, it has also completed borehole facilities and other facilities to make learning more enjoyable and in a much more conducive environment.

Airtel Touching Lives is an inspiring corporate social responsibility initiative that seeks to offer practical relief, succour, hope, opportunities and credible platforms to liberate and empower the underprivileged, disadvantaged and hard to reach persons in our society. Airtel has touched the lives of over 2 million Nigerians who were directly or indirectly plagued with varying forms of afflictions ranging from health challenges to financial woes.

2020 Highlights

In October 2019, Airtel opened an ICT (Information Communication Technology) Centre serving 30,000 people in a largely rural community in Southwest Nigeria. Now, many students, budding entrepreneurs and families in Imodi Ijebu have uninterrupted internet access through 30 desktop computers with a suite of printers and scanners.

Also, Airtel Nigeria incorporated a toll-free awareness hotline in partnership with the Lagos State Aids Control Agency to educate people about HIV and Aids, while supporting free testing, counselling and medication.