2024: Many subscribers besiege MTN offices over barred telephone lines
A crowd of MTN subscribers whose telephone lines were barred by the network besieged the firm’s office in Kano, Lagos and Oyo States, on Monday morning.
MTN, the largest mobile network in Nigeria with millions of subscribers barred the telephone lines of several users on Sunday, allegedly for failing to link their National Identification Numbers (NIN) with their mobile phone numbers.
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Some of the affected persons, however, alleged that the company did so as part of efforts to frustrate a planned nationwide anti-government protest scheduled to commence on Thursday.
As of the time of this report, the telecoms firm has yet to issue an official statement on the controversy. It is unclear how many mobile phone numbers were affected.
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