Cheap Glo Data Plan: ₦200 for 1GB? Awoof Codes and Best Monthly

The best cheap Glo data plan for a whole month on a small budget is the regular ₦2,000 monthly bundle. It gives 6.25GB. A little over half of that works at any hour.

As for the ₦200 gigabyte in forwarded screenshots, it's Tuesday Fiesta, and it lasts one day, not a week. Prices here are as at 26 October 2026, for students, apprentices and corps members stretching two or three thousand naira of data across a month.

Which Glo data plan is the best for students and apprentices

Timing matters as much as size. Someone opening lecture PDFs from the WhatsApp group every day needs a bundle that survives the whole month, while a bus conductor paid daily does better with small top-ups. Find your row below.

Quick pick: which Glo plan fits your week

Glo data plan price: what ₦500, ₦1,000, ₦2,000 and ₦5,000 buy

Most Glo bundles hide night data inside the headline size, and that night share only works from midnight to 5am, so look at the any-time share first.

You buy a weekly bundle on Monday. By Wednesday your phone says it's finished, because most of what remained was night data you couldn't touch in daylight.

₦500 Glo weekly data plan: 1.55GB

Only 550MB of this bundle works during the day. Everything else waits for midnight. Sleep at night like most people? Then compare it with a plain 1GB weekly plan first.

₦1,000 Glo data plan for 30 days: 2.6GB

About 1.1GB of this monthly bundle is any-time data. That covers WhatsApp chats and lecture PDFs for the month, as long as you save videos and video calls for hostel or office Wi-Fi whenever it's working.

₦2,000 Glo monthly data plan: 6.25GB

Most students on a tight budget land here, and for the money it's the best Glo monthly data plan going. You get 3.25GB that works at any hour, with night data on top. Renew on time and your unused main data rolls over.

On paper, the ₦1,500 weekly plan looks bigger. Because it expires after seven days, buying it every week would cost three times your monthly budget, so save it for the one week a project is due.

₦5,000 Glo data plan: 16.5GB or Always On, the nearest to unlimited

Here you're picking a style of plan. The regular monthly bundle gives 16.5GB, most of it usable at any hour. Always On gives 30GB instead, released one gigabyte a day.

That daily drip cuts both ways. You can't burn the whole month in one wild weekend, but you also can't pull two days' worth on the night your project is due. A corps member who calls home every evening will love it. Students who download in bursts usually won't.

Glo Campus Booster for students

Campus Booster is Glo's student bundle: 10GB for a month at the same ₦2,000 as the regular plan. Catch? None of the bonus works off Glo's selected campus sites. If your school isn't on that list, stick with the regular bundle. Dial *312# on your own line and look for Campus Booster in the menu.

Glo awoof data code: what it is and the catches

Awoof is Nigerian slang for something you get free, or far below its worth. On Glo, the word sticks to two deals that travel around as screenshots: the ₦200 gigabyte and the Always On codes. Both exist. Neither is quite what the screenshot says.

Glo 200 for 1GB for 7 days: is there one?

No. Glo has no ₦200 gigabyte that lasts a week, and the seven-day version still doing the rounds is an old offer that's gone from the menu.

Today's version is Tuesday Fiesta, bought in the Glo Café app on Tuesdays and gone after a day. Glo has also run a Sunday-only bundle at that price before.

What ₦200 (or close to it) buys on Glo

If you need a gigabyte that lasts the week, Buy cheap Glo data on AidaPay for your own line or someone else's.

A night plan bought before an afternoon lecture just sits there until midnight. Night owls with a course video to download get a bargain. Everyone else pays for hours spent asleep.

*312*183# and *312*184#: what the Always On codes really give

Both codes buy Glo Always On plans.

Glo Always On codes

Look closely at the cheaper code. For the same ₦2,000, Glo's regular bundle gives a little more data and lasts twice as long, so the awoof label falls apart side by side. When the main volume runs out, Always On keeps you connected at a slower speed. WhatsApp copes. A video lecture won't.

Cheap data codes for Glo in one place

• *312#: the main menu to buy any Glo data plan
• *312*183#: the smaller Always On plan
• *312*184#: the bigger Always On plan
• *323#: check your data balance
• *321#: share data with another Glo number

More shortcuts sit in the full list of Glo USSD codes.

Your own line or another number

Any code you dial buys data for the SIM you dial from. Your sibling's line gets nothing. To send some across, dial *321#, pick the share option on the main menu, or use the Glo Café app.

How to make Glo data last: night data, Wi-Fi and WhatsApp settings

Where your megabytes go decides how long a bundle lasts. Save phone updates, course videos and big app downloads for after midnight, when the night share kicks in and your daytime megabytes stay free for class.

WhatsApp is where most small budgets leak. Every photo and video in a busy group downloads by itself until you change one setting:

1. Open WhatsApp and go to Settings.
2. Tap Storage and data.
3. Under Media auto-download, set photos, audio, videos and documents to Wi-Fi or Never.

Glo texts you when most of your data is gone and again when it runs out. To check your Glo data balance any time, dial *323#. Keep a second SIM on another network? The data balance codes for every network sit together on one page.

Rollover trips people up. Unused main data carries over only when you renew with the same type of bundle, either before the old one expires or during the grace period after it. Monthly plans get a week of grace, and weekly plans get three days. Bonus data never rolls over. Set a reminder well before exam week.

Where a cheap Glo data plan costs less: AidaPay vs Glo's own menu

On AidaPay, the Glo and Glo AWUF plans come in most of the same sizes as Glo's own menu, and each costs a little less. You also get small plans that last a full month. That matters if you want a cheap Glo data plan for the whole month, because Glo's small plans expire within a day or two.

AidaPay vs Glo's own menu, prices as at 26 October 2026

To get the student pick for less, buy cheap Glo data for any number on AidaPay.

How to buy a Glo data plan for yourself or another number

To activate a Glo data plan on your own line, dial *312# and pick a plan. Rather tap than dial? The Glo Café app and hsi.glo.com do the same job.

To send data to a sibling, a parent or a customer through AidaPay:

1. Download the app and fund your wallet by bank transfer or card.
2. Choose Data, then Glo or Glo AWUF for the bundle sizes in the table above.
3. Enter the Glo number that should get the data.
4. Pick a plan and confirm with your PIN.

You'll see the price and the cashback before you pay. Next time you top up, check how much of last month's bundle you actually used and buy that size, not the one a forwarded screenshot promised.

Frequently asked questions

Published 29 September 2026, updated 26 October 2026. Prices and codes change - if you spot one that has moved, tell us and we will fix it.