Crowd besieged MTN office whose telephone lines were barred by the network

NIGERIA — A crowd of MTN subscribers whose telephone lines were barred by the network besieged the firm’s office in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday morning. Some members of the crowd became violent and threw stones at the building, a witness told PREMIUM TIMES. MTN with millions of subscribers barred the telephone lines of several users on Sunday, allegedly for failing to link their National Identification Numbers (NIN) with their mobile phone numbers. Some of the affected persons, however, alleged that the company did so as part of efforts to frustrate a planned nationwide anti-government protest scheduled to commence on Thursday... premiumtimesng.com