MTN Nigeria has announced that as of July 30, all of its offices will be closed.
This was confirmed by a telecommunications company executive.
According to the source, the decision was made because angry consumers, whose connections were cut in accordance with the government’s NIN-SIM linkage policy, had vandalised the company’s offices.
Nigerians all around the country claimed on July 27 that they were unable to make or receive calls after their phone lines were shut off for not connecting their SIM cards to their national identification numbers (NINs).
An MTN Nigeria office in Festac town, Lagos, had its fence ripped down by a bunch of irate customers on Monday.
The event transpired as a result of subscribers swarming MTN offices with grievances regarding the telecom company’s blockage of their phone lines.
Subscribers in Oyo, FCT, and Kano, among other parts of the country, also swarmed the offices of other telecom companies over the development.
But in the midst of all of this commotion, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) issued an order to telecom companies to temporarily reconnect all phone lines that had been blocked as part of the NIN-SIM verification process.
