Nigerians can now view YouTube offline

Google boss Sundar Pichai joined members of his executive team on his first visit to Nigeria as the company announced a series of products for the country, including YouTube Go, a platform where users with slow Internet can preview and save videos.

YouTube users in the country can now download any video in a range of different resolutions so that they can watch it later without an Internet connection.

While Nigeria has about 93 million mobile Internet users, the cost of data is expensive and at times the Internet is very slow. Nigeria is the second country after India to have the YouTube Go capability. Google has owned YouTube since 2006.

The move is certain to increase YouTube’s growing Nigeria base, which the platform is keen to court; it held the first YouTube sub-Saharan Africa awards last year and prominent Nigerian bloggers have been featured in advertising campaigns around the country.

UCJ, UNILORIN.