President has ordered probes into
the sale of Nigerian Telecommunications,
NITEL and Mobile Telecommunications, MTEL
sold by the previous government of ex-
president Goodluck Jonathan.
President Buhari however said he was not
opposed to the sale of the telecommunication
companies belonging to the federal
government but was concerned about the
process.
It will be recalled that former President
Jonathan’s administration sold the telecom
company for $252m to NATCOM consortium
in December 2014.
Speaking on Tuesday, to State House
Correspondents after briefing President Buhari
on the activities of the sector, the Permanent
Secretary, Federal Ministry of Communication
and Technology, Dr. Tunji Olaopa said that
the president has directed him to raise a
memo on the whole transaction to ascertain if
there were any underhand dealings.
He also stated that the president was equally
concerned on the quality of service rendered
by the telecom operators in Nigeria.
“The President was concerned about the
liquidation of NITEL. He is not opposed to its
privatization but he wants to know and he
want us to bring a memo on how he whole
transaction was undertaken so that he would
know whether Nigeria was shortchanged.
“The President was concerned by the quality
of service of telecom operators. The President
is very concerned about the whole issue
privatization that is hindering the investments
in ICT infrastructure and that he will
personally champion this. The President talked
about the potentials of the ICT sector in
generating employment”, Olaopa said. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/buhari-decries-quality-of-telecom-services-to-probe-sale-of-nitelmtel/

Buhari is all talk, just probe and stop bragging.

Baba help us regain all our companies privatise.

Its almost 100 days in office, the only thong we hear is probe, jail, corruption but wat we see is northnization of Nigeria . Nothing tangible has been done in terms of development. Apcshit and Buhari better get to work. Country just dey on autopilot, wch kind rubbish b dis.

The same set of people that stole our crudes daily and made billions of dollars out of it, is the same set of people that acquired NITEL at chicken change using our stolen money. Is as if they double duped us imagine selling nitel at that price even the underground fibre optics cable laid under the ocean owned by nitel Worth's ten times the price nitel was sold.


Thank God for my sai bubari all this nonsense will soon be revoked.

It takes a true leader to see evil and resist evil, so many atrocities have been committed in different sectors of this my dear country Nigeria it only takes a God fearing man to fight it others would have shown less consign over.

Wealth meany for millions are eaten by few


Thank God for my sai buhari, Nigeria would be great again.

Telecom services now include fixed-network services (data retail, Internet retail, voice retail and wholesale) and mobile services.
Fixed-data services — Includes all dedicated/private line, packet and circuit-switched access services (for example, frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode, IP, Integrated Services Digital Network, DSL, multichannel multipoint distribution service [MMDS] and satellite) retail revenue. No differentiation is made between the type of traffic or application carried by these services.

OK I hear.