{"id":44264,"date":"2024-07-29T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/telecom-companies-trying-to-impede-protest-by-disconnecting-subscribers-adegboruwa\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:03:37","slug":"telecom-companies-trying-to-impede-protest-by-disconnecting-subscribers-adegboruwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/telecom-companies-trying-to-impede-protest-by-disconnecting-subscribers-adegboruwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom companies trying to impede protest by disconnecting subscribers \u2013 Adegboruwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has claimed that elecommunications companies in the country could be trying to hinder the upcoming protest against economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>Adegboruwa in a statement on Sunday, said there were a lot of complaints about network restrictions as the date for the protest approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to begin on August 1, the demonstration aims to address issues of hunger, poverty, and dissatisfaction with current economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>He noted, \u201cIn recent days, some telecom companies have been disconnecting subscribers for trivial or unexplained reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adegboruwa also criticised the timing of these disconnections, suggesting that they are intended to limit the reach of protestors and frustrate the planned demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>The SAN noted that telecom contracts are binding and that subscribers should be given adequate time and information to address any issues.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. to investigate the matter and ensure that subscribers\u2019 rights are protected.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom companies trying to impede protest by disconnecting subscribers \u2013 Adegboruwa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has claimed that elecommunications companies in the country could be trying to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7729,15],"tags":[7730,8,17361,22366,22368,180,600,22367,1971,3990],"class_list":["post-44264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adegboruwa","category-news","tag-adegboruwa","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-companies","tag-disconnecting","tag-impede","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-subscribers","tag-telecom","tag-trying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}