NIGERIAN COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ONCE AGAIN BARKS WITH UNLIKELY BITING AT TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES PROVIDERS OVER THEIR TERRIBLE SERVICES
March 30, 2026
Greetings!
You do know me, Harry Agina, Mr. No Bullshitting, right? According to today’s news picture and caption below, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has finally suddenly woken from its corruption slumber. It has directed that the telecommunication service providers in Nigeria must compensate Nigerians for their decades of terrible services. Wow!!!
Mind you, the wowing exclamation is not from me, no sir, no ma’am. It’s from gullible Nigerians who have bought the fallacy. Here is my own reaction to NCC’s directive: First off, those incompetent and APPARENTLY COMPROMISED NCC officials should not be talking about giving some nonsensical token of airtime calling credit to Nigerians who have been scammed for so long by the fraudsters who run the telecommunication sercices. Instead, NCC should give a deadline to the service providers to immediately overhaul and improve their services or they will be shut down, period! Secondly, if you believe that Nigerians will receive any sensible compensation from those telecom fraudsters, then you would believe anything in this world, meeeeeeeen!!!
Now, if you’re a Nigerian in Nigeria, I’m willing, no, not just willing, but very eager to take a bet with you right now! I bet you that you ain’t receiving anything MEANINGFUL from those fraudsters in your telecommunication service delivery. The NCC directive will go exactly the same way of all such directives by all the systems of Nigeria, devoid of political will to enforce. Let’s take just one example, shall we! Can you recall how many gazillion times Nigeria Police Force (NPF) announced decision to stop the officers who extort citizens every doggone day on Nigerian roads, and other corrupt practices? Have you ever noticed any reduction is such corrupt and criminal practices?? Instead, do the crimes not get worse right after each pronouncement???
The story of Nigeria is that corruption will step in to nullify NCC’s directive to the Telecommunication Service Providers. Money will MOST LIKELY change hands from the companies to NCC officials and everything is swept under the carpet, and then, the telecommunication services in Nigeria will get even worse rather than get better.
If you haven’t thought of why the telecommunication services in Nigeria will most likely get worse after the NCC directive, I will tell ya, pronto! I have predicted that the telecommunication service providers will pay bribe to NCC officials. This is based on the FACT of daily corruption norms in the Nigerian systems. It is also a FACT, not guess work, that anybody who receives bribe from anybody who he or she is supposed to control automatically loses the control, period! The controlled person always blackmails the controller to step away, or be exposed about the bribery. This has been the story that I have heard all these years about the terrible telecommunication services to Nigerians by the service providers.
In fact, my information actually also indicts Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS). It is alleged that members abdicate their duty of OVERSIGHT FUNCTION over the telecommunication sector because members of the NASS leadership receive bribes from the service providers. I wanno conclude this with one statement of FACT, and one question, first the statement of FACT, thus: Yes, it is an established fact that the National Assembly members have been known in the past to collect bribe to abdicate their oversight duties. Many prominent Nigerians openly declared this on national TV press conferences.
Popular among such declarations was one by former INEC Chairman, Professor Atahiru Jega. I did watch Jega on TV when he made that accusation in 2018 during his Democtacy Day lecture. I quote a portion of that lecture, thus: “The Nigerian National Assembly, particularly committee chairs, are notorious for soliciting bribes from agency heads during oversight functions.” Til date, members of the National Assembly never challenged Jega’s open accusation. This and other gazillion notable pronouncements validate my allegation that the National Assembly members take bribes to allow Nigerian telecommunication service providers to get away with their ATROCIOUSLY POOR services to Nigerians.
And now, my closing question: Why else do Nigerian telecommunication service providers continue with their atrocious quality of services, if not bribery of National Assembly and Nigerian Communications Commission?
To the best of my knowledge, Nigeria has the worst telecom services in the entire world and there is no single justification for that. And yes, if Nigeria’s National Assembly would take its oversight functions seriously, and the NCC takes its supervisory duty seriously, the telecom services MUST improve, or their companies MUST get shut down, meeeeeeeen!!!