{"id":32067,"date":"2019-05-21T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=32067"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:05:48","slug":"sim-registration-mtn-pays-n235bn-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/sim-registration-mtn-pays-n235bn-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM Registration: MTN Pays N235bn Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Nigeria Communications Limited has paid a total of N235bn out of the N330bn fine imposed on the mobile telecommunications operator in August 2015 by industry regulatory agency, the Nigerian Communications Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Vice Chairman at NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta, confirmed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday on the sidelines of a valedictory press briefing by the Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu. Danbatta said emanating from the major industry dispute, Nigerians now had the opportunity to own part of the mobile telecommunications network following the public listing of the company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The NCC boss said, \u201cWe have succeeded in empowering Nigerians to own, control and manage one of the dominant telecommunications companies in the country by MTN listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is arising from the settlement agreement reached with MTN through the payment of N330bn to the government coffers of which they have paid N235bn thereby remaining the last tranche.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTN has been listed on the NSE and Nigerians can now buy shares and through this Nigerians will be financially empowered and socially transformed.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Nigeria Communications Limited has paid a total of N235bn out of the N330bn fine imposed on the mobile telecommunications operator in August 2015 by industry regulatory agency, the Nigerian Communications Commission.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[1800],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-32067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-mtn-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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