Nigeria hikes mobile phone tariffs by 50 per cent

Mobile telephone and data subscribers in Nigeria will now have to pay more after the government approved a 50-percent increase in tariffs, as the country battles one of its worst cost-of-living crises in decades. Telecommunications companies in the west African country had initially proposed a 100-percent tariff increase in the face of rising operational costs.

Nigeria hikes mobile phone tariffs by 50 per cent
Mobile telephone and data subscribers in Nigeria will now have to pay more after the government approved a 50-percent increase in tariffs, as the country battles one of its worst cost-of-living crises in decades. Telecommunications companies in the west African country had initially proposed a 100-percent tariff increase in the face of rising operational costs.