Nigeria fuel crisis could shut down mobile phones, operator warns


SEVERE SHORTAGE: MTN said it needed a

LAGOS: Nigeria’s biggest mobile phone operator MTN has warned that its network faces shutdown due to fuel shortages that have crippled the nation. 

The company, the biggest subsidiary of the South Africa-based MTN Group, said it needed a “significant quantity of diesel in the very near future to prevent a shutdown of services across Nigeria”. 

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