Tariff hike: Telecoms services'll be shutdown March 1 — NLC
*Declares 3 hours boycott of all operators’ services from today *Asks Nigerians to suspend purchase of data *Telcos talk tough, say labour gravitating towards treason *NATCOMS berates NCC, asks regulator to redeem image with sanctioning telcos THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has expressed outrage over the hike in tariffs by telecommunications companies, despite an earlier agreement reached with the Federal Government and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and demanded immediate reversal of the increase to avoid unpleasant consequences. But the operators are not taking any of NLC’s threat, warning that labour’s action would amount to treasonable felony. Recall that the Federal Government and NLC had about two weeks ago, emerged from a meeting convened by the former to see how the price hike could be reduced from the proposed 50 %. A 10-man committee, comprising five members from each of the two parties, was constituted and given two weeks to further de...