Nigerians have vowed to drag the federal government to court over approval of a 50 percent increase in calls, data, and other telecommunication tariffs.

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This comes as the minister of communications and digital economy, bosun tijani, hinted that telecom tariffs will go up by either 30 or at most 50 percent.

Tijani’s position came from a fallout of a meeting between him and operators who had proposed a 100 percent tariff increase. In an instant multiplier effect, the president of the national association of telecoms subscribers, adeolu ogunbanjo and the national spokesperson for the association of mobile money & bank agents in nigeria, ogungbayi ganiyu have also hinted at plans to increase service charges