Minister Gives Update On Telecoms Tariffs Increase After Operators Proposed 100%

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January 9, 2025

The Federal Government has announced plans to raise telecom tariffs, though it assured Nigerians that the increase will not reach the 100% proposed by operators.

Bosun Tijan, the Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, shared this information during a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.

He further stated that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) would outline the procedures for implementing the tariff adjustments in the telecom sector.

Tijani said, “We’ve look 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.”