50% Tariff Hike: Boycott telecoms services 3 hours daily, NLC tells workers, public
Nigerian workers and the public were Wednesday asked to boycott the services of MTN, Airtel, and Glo over a recent 50 percent increase in tariffs. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reached the decision for this call following a meeting of its Central Working Committee (CWC) in Kogi State.
In a statement on Wednesday, Joe Ajaero, the NLC president, described the hike as “arbitrary,” demanding an immediate reversal.
He said the boycott would begin on Thursday and run daily from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm until the end of February 2025.
The union said the boycott would continue until the tariff was reverted to the previous rate pending the conclusion of discussions by the relevant committee.
The statement reads: “As a first step in resisting this arbitrary tariff hike, the CWC has directed that, beginning Thursday, February 13, 2025, Nigerian workers and other willing citizens shall boycott the services of MTN, AIRTEL, and GLO daily between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM until the end of February 2025.″
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, asked the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy to suspend the approval granted to telecommunications companies to increase tariff by 50 percent.
The House directed the Ministry of Digital Economy and the Nigerian Communications Commissions (NCC) to “suspend the impending hike in telecommunications tariffs until their service improved.”
