The House of Representatives has today directed the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani and the Nigerian Communications Commissions, NCC, to suspend the impending hike in telecommunications tariffs until services are improved.
The decision of the House was sequel to the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved at the plenary today by Oforji Oboku.
The lawmaker expressed concern that the far reaching effects of these price hikes would deepen financial struggles for the average Nigerian, threaten the country’s vision of leveraging technology to drive economic revival, exacerbate poverty and widen existing inequalities, hitting lower income families the hardest.
