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Nigerians to pay more on communication
By Valentine Amanze
Harder time awaits Nigerians in 2025 as the federal government welcomes them back from the Yultide with an increase in telecoms tariffs despite harsh economy.
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijan, who confirmed the development at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, assured that it won’t be by 100 per cent as requested by operators.
He further disclosed that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) would come up with modalities for tariff adjustment in the telecoms industry, without saying the commencement date.
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Tijani’s words: “We’ve looked at a number of things in terms of how to ensure that can meaningfully contribute to the development of Nigeria.
“Some of those things include implementing the Executive Order around ensuring that we can protect infrastructure around telecoms, driving up significantly local content and importantly, ensuring the sustainability of the companies themselves that as we see inflation across the world that telecommunications companies, we don’t run them down but we allow them to continue to be sustainable so that they can contribute to our economy.
“You have seen over the past weeks that there has been agitation from some of these companies to increase tariffs, requesting for 100% tariff increase. This is not something that as a government we will be able to subscribe to at the minute.”
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