From a National Security perspective, what would have happened to Nigeria yesterday and today if we did not have Glo to rely on? MTN, Airtel and 9Mobile went off the air. They were down. And the reason they were down is because their infrastructure is not tailor-made for Nigeria. That is why the sabotage, allegedly by the Houthi rebels, affected them.

But why did it not affect Glo? Because their commitment level to Nigeria is not as strong as Glo's.

Globacom was the first African telecom company to build an intercontinental submarine cable, the Glo 1 cable, which ran from Bude, a seaside rural town in north Cornwall, England and traversed seventeen countries, including Ghana, before terminating in Nigeria.

By going from Europe to the West Coast of Africa, it avoids the more turbulent but cheaper to maintain MENA region (Middle-East and North Africa).

Contrast that with MTN. They did not build from scratch. They came into Nigeria by scavenging on another telco. Their purpose is to suck Nigeria dry and repatriate money made in Nigeria to South Africa. Is Airtel any better? Yesterday answered that question.

Let me ask Nigerians a question: With all the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa, how much has MTN spent to educate our Black South African brothers to be more tolerant to their fellow brother Black Africans, which they derogatorily call 'makwerekwere'? Nothing. Did they provide a plane when Nigerians were running away from xenophobia in South Africa? No. I helped arranged free airlifts for those willing to return home. Let MTN tell us what they did.

So, let this Red Sea Cable sabotage open the eyes of our National Security architecture. If all we had to rely on were MTN, Airtel and 9Mobile, Nigeria would have been toast. And imagine that we were fighting a real war. Can we rely on undersea cables that could be turned off from South Africa and India? What happened in Niger after their quarrel with France? France turned off their satellite communications.

This has been the rationale behind my #GrowNairaBuyNaija campaign. We saw how DSTV had a 'blackout' when Nwabali saved goals for Nigeria against South Africa. Nigerians must control Nigeria's cable and satellite infrastructure, or we are not really an independent country.

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COMRADES, is Reno not tired of eye service?

Which telco is paying Reno Omokri to kill its competitor, MTN?

MTN needs to send the IG of Police ASAP to jail Reno Omokri before he kills their business!

Business built with sweat and hard work, Omokri wants to destroy!

Too bad! Who paid Reno to do this dirty job? Why's he destroying the image of a business that's employed thousands of Nigerians, pays taxes, and engages in communal development services? Why's Reno destroying our FDI? Who's paying Reno to do all this? MTN should act fast before Reno destroys them!

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Which telco is paying Reno Omokri to kill its competitor, MTN?

MTN needs to send the IG of Police ASAP to jail Reno Omokri before he kills their business!

Business built with sweat and hard work, Omokri wants to destroy!

Too bad! Who paid Reno to do this dirty job? Why's he destroying the image of a business that's employed thousands of Nigerians, pays taxes, and engages in communal development services? Why's Reno destroying our FDI? Who's paying Reno to do all this? MTN should act fast before Reno destroys them!

Don't mind the hypocrite. He wants Chioma jailed because of a review but here is he publicly defaming MTN.

Melagros:
COMRADES, is Reno not tired of eye service?

That guy is shameless!

APCNGN:


Don't mind the hypocrite. He wants Chioma jailed because of a review but here is he publicly defaming MTN.

That's Reno for you! MTN is just being nice to him. I wish they'll act like Erisco Foods founder, by now he'll be shilling in jail.

Reno rest abeg... Who curse you so. U are like a Vagabond

This guy should be sued by mtn, he is damaging the image of the company, many Nigerians are working in mtn and many are benefiting from their service.

123456789O:
Which telco is paying Reno Omokri to kill its competitor, MTN?

MTN needs to send the IG of Police ASAP to jail Reno Omokri before he kills their business!

Business built with sweat and hard work, Omokri wants to destroy!

Too bad! Who paid Reno to do this dirty job? Why's he destroying the image of a business that's employed thousands of Nigerians, pays taxes, and engages in communal development services? Why's Reno destroying our FDI? Who's paying Reno to do all this? MTN should act fast before Reno destroys them!

He is too small a man too achieve anything with this obvious campaign of calumny.

Its a shame that he hasn't spoken about 500m each for Senators in the budget, because he is frolicking with Tinubu's regime.

The senile big head should have started a national GSM company when he was with Jonathan nau.

So daft a man

decatalyst:


He is too small a man too achieve anything with this obvious campaign of calumny.

Its a shame that he hasn't spoken about 500m each for Senators in the budget, because he is frolicking with Tinubu's regime.

The senile big head should have started a national GSM company when he was with Jonathan nau.

So daft a man

And I used to respect that man o. Chai!

Silly Omokri..old fool with zero sense

Painful truth

Erisco police force should apprehend Reno omonkey for defaming another person's business.


Hypocritical shameless man