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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, over the alleged ”arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable 50 percent telecom tariff hike by the Nigerian Communications Commission,NCC


Also joined in the suit as defendants are the NCC, which recently approved a 50 percent hike in telecom tariffs.

The average price of calls will rise to N16.5 per minute from N11; the cost of 1GB of data will rise to N431.25 from N287.5/GB; and SMS prices to N6 from N4, by the increase.


The suit, with number, FHC/ABJ/CS/111/2025, was filed last Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, SERAP is asking the court to determine “whether the unilateral decision by the NCC to authorise telcos to hike telecom tariffs by 50 percent is not arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, unreasonable and inconsistent with citizens’ freedom of expression and access to information”.

SERAP is also asking the court for a declaration that the unilateral decision by the NCC to authorise telcos to hike telecom tariff by 50 percent is arbitrary, unfair, unreasonable and inconsistent and incompatible with citizens’ freedom of expression and access to information and therefore unconstitutional and unlawful.

An order of interim injunction, according to SERAP is seeking to restrain NCC, its officers, agents, privies, assigns, or any other person or persons acting on its instructions from further implementing, enforcing and doing any act to give effect to the decision of the NCC authorizing telecom tariff hike by 50 percent.


SERAP, in the suit argued that the legal and constitutional provisions as well as international standards on freedom of expression and access to information constitutes the repository of legality, adding that the requirements of legality constrains the exercise of statutory powers by the NCC to authorise any increase in telecom tariffs.

The suit filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, on behalf of SERAP, impose clear duties of fairness and reasonableness on the NCC in the exercise of its powers to authorize the telecom tariff hike by 50 percent, which is the subject-matter of this suit.

The NCC is required under the legal provisions on consumers’ rights and constitutional and international standards on freedom of expression and access to information to base its decision on reasonable interpretations of its enabling statutes and guidelines and other relevant legal frameworks, and to follow due process.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Telecom-tariff-hike-SERAP-drags-Tinubu-to-court

Master planner

Kudos to SERAP for fighting our unseen battles, even though it usually amounts to nothing, at least they try 😂

This people and court case

But they never win any

SERAP should SHARAP

I doubt if they ever won any case taking government to the court

adenigga:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/Telecom-tariff-hike-SERAP-drags-Tinubu-to-court

SERAP has now become laughable like NLC. Not sure which court will deem a tariff hike to recover costs and stay in business unconstitutional!!

Telco's tariffs have been constant for over a decade! Like it or not, rationally speaking, the price adjustment is long overdue

Tinibu go deal with all of us,

Shea na 9ja we dey?
Ashawo say make every body stand for line,say toto go reach everbody ,

Right from time,I knew dis man has nothing to offer,
The only solution to this country problem was s to divide it
A country named by a woman can never progress.

what about starlink price Fed government don allow the hike

helinues:
SERAP should SHARAP

I doubt if they ever won any case taking government to the court

Confirmed........

The hike is needed.

People like helinues won’t make it online anymore.
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Has mannabbqgrillz gone down and under for good?

I don't blame telecom in this inflationary economics conditions they are running at high cost. Still the blame is on Tunibu.

This is needless. Under the current gloomy economic dispensation enabled by the cluelessness and stark ineptitude of the drug baron cum certificate forger....businesses are left with no choice other than to increase their cost of services if they are to survive

Since the inception of this touts they have not won a single case

Which of their cases have they actually won? They're always dragging the Federal Government or that state to court. Oga, abeg, make una park well!

Talismann:
SERAP is just as useless as the letter H in GHANA

You’ll also accuse their uselessness as the reason you typed in red.