Nigeria’s biggest group of unions pickets MTN Lagos office
Lagos — MTN Group’s Nigeria offices are being picketed by the country’s biggest group of unions over an alleged refusal to allow staff to form workers’ groups, a claim denied by Africa’s largest wireless carrier. The Nigeria Labour Congress agreed with Johannesburg-based MTN to allow a "neutral group" to survey staff and find out who wants to join a union, general secretary Peter Ozo-Eson said outside the company’s offices in Lagos on Tuesday. "MTN has refused for that to happen," he said. MTN is the market leader in Nigeria with almost 55-million customers, but has had a troubled relationship with Africa’s most populous country in recent years. In 2015, the company was hit with a regulatory fine that led to more than 18 months of negotiations that eroded the share price. Last year, MTN Nigeria’s headquarters in the capital, Abuja, were vandalised in retaliation for xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in SA. As part of the $1bn fine settlement, MTN Nigeria pledged to list on the Nigeria...
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