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As I have said here, the people vilifying South Africa both online and offline are those same people who Ghana threw them out of their markets and these same people are not in anyway engaged in any legitimate business in South Africa.

They are not crying that South Africa is kicking them and taking over their properties.

Rather they are crying because one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the continent is being denied them.

Can anyone mention just one Nigerian owned business in South Africa that can compare up to 1% to that of MTN in terms of volume of cash flows and tax remittance to South Africa ?

And while you are at it, can you tell us what these drug cartels in SA contribute to Nigeria's socio-economic development ?
For those of you who want to attack South African owned businesses in Nigeria due to South Africa kicking out Nigerian criminals and are demanding that all South African businesses are shuttered down and taken over in a hostile retaliation , I want you to consider the following:


MTN Nigeria paid over #870bn in taxes and levies in 2025 to the FG. Their projected earnings for this year are expected to record a growth and so more taxes will go to the FG and states.

MTN Nigeria has also created massive job employment for their retail arm and also have Nigerian contracting firms maintaining their over 17,000 leased cell tower networks over Nigeria.

IHS Holding owns 16,000 towers in Nigeria, of which 14,600 are leased by MTN (approximately 80% of MTN’s tower portfolio).

American Tower Corporation (ATC) handles the remaining 13% of MTN’s tower portfolio, specifically taking over the lease of approximately 2,500 sites from IHS.

The two companies above hire Nigerians to maintain these towers and pay taxes, broadcast licenses and levies to state and federal govt.

Now for those of you demanding that NTN Nigeria be Nationalized or forcibly Nigerianized and handed to Nigerian companies , have you considered how NiTel crashed?

If MTN is to be Nationalized as some are demanding as a response to South Africa rightly kicking out Nigerian criminals, just note that it will be run down within one year of it being nationalized.

Nepotism - politicians and the new Nigerian management will fill it with their relatives, girlfriends, tribes people - which will lead to mediocrity and over bloated workforce.

Then there's corruption which will see politicians and management awarding inflated contracts to themselves and not even bothering to do the basic routine site maintenance. MTN will then be paying far more more for far less.

Embezzlement will engulf the Nationalized MTN with General Managers appointed to manage the company fleecing it dry through inflated and non existing business expenses , outright theft, etc.

Waste will then become the norm with the now over bloated executive staff wanting at least two brand new official vehicles (an SUV and a salon car).

The govt appointed MD will also require police and DSS 24hr security and he will be travelling aimlessly across Nigeria and the globe to attend useless seminars and summits on first class with a 30 man retinue drawn from MTN Nigeria directorate staff, National Assembly nominees drawn from the Senate committee for Communication. Ministry of Communication will also put the serving Ministers name, Perm Sec, directors to go on the jamboree holiday.
Let's not forget the govt appointed MTN board members and the Staff of Presidency, they too will go on the all expense holiday .

To keep their looting position, the management will then say they will reduce cost on tarrifs and the gullible will cheer and praise the new MTN govt Nationalized company.

Within one year, services will begin to breakdown and deteoriate to the point that it will take at least a day for a text message to be delivered. Calls won't go through because MTN Nigeria did not pay the lease on the cell towers. Internet service will be as slow as a snail and by that time Nigerians will be showing off with Elon Musk Starlink on their roof tops as a status symbol .

Before you know it, MTN Nigeria will approach the Presidency for bailout . The company is now on the red due to high operating cost, high indebtedness, corruption and ineptitude.

The FG will sack the board of directors and appoint a retired Army General to head the company whose only credentials was that he was once commander of the Nigerian Army Signal Corp.

In due time, network glitches that used to be for hours now last for days and excuses begin to pile up and the blame will go to vandals and terrorists blowing up base stations that MTN has since been disconnected by the owners . SIM cards will be as hard as getting a DISCO prepaid meter and you will pay 20 times what you are paying for a SIM and this is after you grease a staff in MTN Nigeria or their selected retailers some extra cash on top.

The FG will then get sense and then hand MTN Nigeria to the salvagers and undertakers in the NDIC to look for a suitable investor that will take over and run the company.

But this will be next to impossible since following MTN being nationalized, most multinational companies fled the country and are not willing to reinvest in Nigeria anymore.

So the company will now get bought for pennies by a group of oligarchs who will then transform basic mobile telecommunication and internet access to an elitist privilege.

The elite who now own what was formally MTN will ensure and make it know that mobile telecommunication is not a right but a privilege reserved for only the top 10% of society.

The NASS and Political class will agree as they will see that it is better the plebs don't have means to rally and incite against the ruling class.

I hope the travails of Nigerian criminals in SA whose cup don full and who contribute next to nothing meaningful to both SA and Nigeria was worth kicking MTN out of Nigeria .

@OP.

Well-said. Cutting their noses to spite their faces, because of unprogressive and self-destructive egotisism, is what Nigerians excel at.

Which Nigerian-owned telecoms operator do we have at the level of MTN to make us believe we can nationalise it and run it as well as it operates currently? Glo?

TopBanter:
@OP.

Well-said. Cutting their noses to spite their faces, because of unprogressive and self-destructive egotisism, is what Nigerians excel at.

Which Nigerian-owned telecoms operator do we have at the level of MTN to make us believe we can nationalise it and run it as well as it operates currently? Glo?

And they want to get rid of a company that pays one of the highest corporate taxes, offers direct and indirect employment to tens of thousands of Nigerians, a company that helped built the tech industry through their cheap internet access that has seen to a growing digital economy.

And they are doing this because the town criers who are slandering South Africa are being denied the most lucrative drug market on the continent.

These are the same people that are funding Biafra seccesionist in IPOB to commit acts of terror on Nigerian security officers and are paying lobby firms in Washington to come and break Nigeria for them.

Are Nigerians so stupid ?

If MTN leaves Nigeria, no other multinational company will take her place .

So there goes the jobs, tax revenue and digital communication network we have so much evolved to depend on .

You can't fix stupid.

Good heavens! Can you imagine what a human being who claims there's a brain and not mucous inside his head is talking? OP, are sure you're okay? So you mean that all Nigerians that fled SA are all criminals? Haba! What sort of education are people getting these days?

FSBoperator:
And they want to get rid of a company that pays one of the highest corporate taxes, offers direct and indirect employment to tens of thousands of Nigerians, a company that helped built the tech industry through their cheap internet access that has seen to a growing digital economy.

And they are doing this because the town criers who are slandering South Africa are being denied the most lucrative drug market on the continent.

These are the same people that are funding Biafra seccesionist in IPOB to commit acts of terror on Nigerian security officers and are paying lobby firms in Washington to come and break Nigeria for them.

Are Nigerians so stupid ?

If MTN leaves Nigeria, no other multinational company will take her place .

So there goes the jobs, tax revenue and digital communication network we have so much evolved to depend on .

You can't fix stupid.

OP, you have said it all.... Only God can help Nigeria as it stands, and also when every individual is being held accountable for every public position they hold, just like it's been done in China...

ResidentSnitch:
Good heavens! Can you imagine what a human being who claims there's a brain and not mucous inside his head is talking? OP, are sure you're okay? So you mean that all Nigerians that fled SA are all criminals? Haba! What sort of education are people getting these days?

The amplifiers of the ongoing rightful expulsion of illegal immigrants in SA who are not gainfully employed but are running the drug dens and corners in SA are the ones making noise over this.

They want us to join them to fight SA as a patriotic duty to standup for all Nigerians irrespective if they are all criminals


I thought you guys said there's no jobs in SA?

So what are your people doing in SA?

How are they making a legitimate living ?

As I said, the people making the loudest noise over the rightful legal expulsion of illegal immigrants in SA are doing so because they are seeing the most lucrative illicit drug market slipping out of their hands

Which other country on the planet will tolerate an entire foreign nationality that do not work nor pay taxes but are solely into drug dealings and other sundry criminal ventures ?

You cry incessantly over foreigners from the Sahel invading Nigeria and being the ones running the industrial scale kidnapping operation in the NW and assisting Islamic terrorists to get guns and ammo, but you want your Narco Terrorists to remain in Africa's biggest and most lucrative illicit drug market to continue doing what they do.

What a travesty!

If it was Trump's America those your people crying xenophobia would have ran away to Mexico or risk being declared a national security threat and labelled as Narco Terrorists and will be tried under the RICO Act that will see them spend centuries in FPS facility in ADX , Florence -Arizona.

I blame the ultra liberal Marxist ANC who opened their borders to every Tom Dick and Harry in the first place and went real soft on crime .

If this was Boer White Afrikaans South Africa you won't even get a visa and if you did, your drug dealers would have been on Robbin Island faster than they can say chineke , serving long grueling hard time.

Wawelexy:
OP, you have said it all.... Only God can help Nigeria as it stands, and also when every individual is being held accountable for every public position they hold, just like it's been done in China...

Peter Obi went to SA to preach to a selection of SA parliamentarians to not evict his brothers from the country that the economy in Nigeria is not doing so well and that Nigeria depends on their remittance back home.

Can you see how foolish and shameless that idiot is?

FSBoperator:
The amplifiers of the ongoing rightful expulsion of illegal immigrants in SA who are not gainfully employed but are running the drug dens and corners in SA are the ones making noise over this.

They want us to join them to fight SA as a patriotic duty to standup for all Nigerians irrespective if they are all criminals


I thought you guys said there's no jobs in SA?

So what are your people doing in SA?

How are they making a legitimate living ?

As I said, the people making the loudest noise over the rightful legal expulsion of illegal immigrants in SA are doing so because they are seeing the most lucrative illicit drug market slipping out of their hands

Which other country on the planet will tolerate an entire foreign nationality that do not work nor pay taxes but are solely into drug dealings and other sundry criminal ventures ?

You cry incessantly over foreigners from the Sahel invading Nigeria and being the ones running the industrial scale kidnapping operation in the NW and assisting Islamic terrorists to get guns and ammo, but you want your Narco Terrorists to remain in Africa's biggest and most lucrative illicit drug market to continue doing what they do.

What a travesty!

If it was Trump's America those your people crying xenophobia would have ran away to Mexico or risk being declared a national security threat and labelled as Narco Terrorists and will be tried under the RICO Act that will see them spend centuries in ADX , Florence -Arizona.

I blame the ultra liberal Marxist ANC who opened their borders to every Tom Dick and Harry in the first place and went real soft on crime .

If this was Boer White Afrikaans South Africa you won't even get a visa and if you did, your drug dealers would have been on Robbin Island serving long grueling hard time.

For you to insinuate, proudly at that, that all Nigerians that fled SA are criminals, simply shows the level of your reasoning, and it's nauseatingly poor. You scored below zero on this one. If I were you, I would clean up this thread. It's not worth it at all. It's shameful.

ResidentSnitch:
For you to insinuate, proudly at that, that all Nigerians that fled SA are criminals, simply shows the level of your reasoning, and it's nauseatingly poor. You scored below zero on this one. If I were you, I would clean up this thread. It's not worth it at all. It's shameful.

No sane Nigerian should cry for those criminals in SA.

Why is it you are so concerned about SA deporting illegal imigrants who are all into drug dealings.

If this was Egypt or Sudan expelling Hausa from their country , you will be clapping.

Pathetic..

Don't drag Nigeria's already soiled name into the rightful eviction of your criminal brothers in SA.

We both know it is the loss of the lucrative drug market in SA that is paining you guys

FSBoperator:
The amplifiers of the ongoing rightful expulsion of illegal immigrants in SA who are not gainfully employed but are running the drug dens and corners in SA are the ones making noise over this.

They want us to join them to fight SA as a patriotic duty to standup for all Nigerians irrespective if they are all criminals


I thought you guys said there's no jobs in SA?

So what are your people doing in SA?

How are they making a legitimate living ?

As I said, the people making the loudest noise over the rightful legal expulsion of illegal immigrants in SA are doing so because they are seeing the most lucrative illicit drug market slipping out of their hands

Which other country on the planet will tolerate an entire foreign nationality that do not work nor pay taxes but are solely into drug dealings and other sundry criminal ventures ?

You cry incessantly over foreigners from the Sahel invading Nigeria and being the ones running the industrial scale kidnapping operation in the NW and assisting Islamic terrorists to get guns and ammo, but you want your Narco Terrorists to remain in Africa's biggest and most lucrative illicit drug market to continue doing what they do.

What a travesty!

If it was Trump's America those your people crying xenophobia would have ran away to Mexico or risk being declared a national security threat and labelled as Narco Terrorists and will be tried under the RICO Act that will see them spend centuries in FPS facility in ADX , Florence -Arizona.

I blame the ultra liberal Marxist ANC who opened their borders to every Tom Dick and Harry in the first place and went real soft on crime .

If this was Boer White Afrikaans South Africa you won't even get a visa and if you did, your drug dealers would have been on Robbin Island faster than they can say chineke , serving long grueling hard time.

Direct your ire at Adams Oshiomhole. He is the inspiration behind the virile anti mtn sentiment when he he was bellowing in the senate session.

When your thoughts are delusion, you end up posting rubbish.

Adams Oshiomole of APC Tinubu supporter was the one who spoke in favour of Nigerian government taking over southafrican companies.

But tribal bigotry keeps blocking your brain, hence babablu bulabu is your only end product.

DomPerignon:
No sane Nigerian should cry for those criminals in SA.

Why is it you are so concerned about SA deporting illegal imigrants who are all into drug dealings.

If this was Egypt or Sudan expelling Hausa from their country , you will be clapping.

Pathetic..

Don't drag Nigeria's already soiled name into the rightful eviction of your criminal brothers in SA.

We both know it is the loss of the lucrative drug market in SA that is paining you guys

You? You're not known on this forum for your wisdom.
It was mainly a mob/riot action. Not majorly an official deportation by the government of SA. Many Nigerians fled for their lives. And thanks to your " deep insight", all of them were illegal immigrants into drug business. All of them.

FSBoperator:
And they want to get rid of a company that pays one of the highest corporate taxes, offers direct and indirect employment to tens of thousands of Nigerians, a company that helped built the tech industry through their cheap internet access that has seen to a growing digital economy.

And they are doing this because the town criers who are slandering South Africa are being denied the most lucrative drug market on the continent.

These are the same people that are funding Biafra seccesionist in IPOB to commit acts of terror on Nigerian security officers and are paying lobby firms in Washington to come and break Nigeria for them.

Are Nigerians so stupid ?

If MTN leaves Nigeria, no other multinational company will take her place .

So there goes the jobs, tax revenue and digital communication network we have so much evolved to depend on .

You can't fix stupid.

Indeed. The other key factor is that any African country that wishes to develop optimally must operate to the highest standard of integrity towards gauranteeing fairness towards foreign investors and investment.

Because of how West African has literally frittered away her last 70 years, foreign investment is required to drive socio-economic progress for many African nations.

Dictatorially and unethically seeking to victimise the likes of MTN in Nigeria for what happened in South Africa, they have no hand in is direct disincentive for FDI to consider Nigeria as a destination of their investment capital.

I don't know how these fairly simple concepts are difficult for Nigerians to discern. It must be because we are emotional, not progressive enough and not critical-thinking enough.

People like this Op are the reason I don't think we can ever do anything in unity as Nigerians just like South Africans did. This kind of mentality cannot give us a united mind to do anything. Imagine South Africans reasoned like this when they wanted to pursue us out, do you think they would have been able to actually pursue us? We are too divisive in Nigeria. If not tribe, religion, then it's this ITK attitude