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Xenophobia: Protests rocked Abuja on Wednesday, targeting South African business interests as protesters brought down banners bearing MTN wherever they were seen. Our correspondent who was at the scene at the Federal Housing Junction, Lugbe witnessed how protesters climbed Lona billboard with MTN advert banners and set the banner ablaze. The iron cast billboard was left untouched, but some Police ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) says it has mobilised the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to protect the equipment and installations of leading digital mobile operator, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. This followed the picketing of the MTN head office in Lagos and other offices in different parts of the country on Monday by the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress ...

Vandals suspected to be members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), had attacked various MTN offices around the country in the name of picketing and injured staff. MTN Nigeria had been involved in protracted talks with the trade union to reach an amicable decision, all to no avail. Confirming the attack and vandalisation of some properties for the company, Corporate ...

The MTN Employees Cooperative Society, through its prosecution witness, Cyril Ilok, has sued two of its former staff; Primavera Engineering and Construction Limited and Mabo Dredging Limited; for allegedly defrauding them of some hectares of land, purportedly meant for the development of Yellow Estate Project, Okun Ajah, Lagos. The defendants in the case include: Victor Akintunde, Gani Mustapha, Mutairu Babatunde, ...

MTN Foundation (MTNF) has officially kick-started the second stage of its ‘What Can We Do Together’ development initiative, having received 92,000 entries. The Guardian reports that to this end, it had commenced verification visits to 1,039 shortlisted communities, out of which a final 200 successful beneficiaries across the six geo-political zones would be impacted by its corporate social responsibility (CSR) effort. ...