After a six-year campaign by Nigeria’s mobile network operators, including MTN, the country’s government has approved an increase in mobile service prices for the first in over a decade.

As hinted at last week by Nigeria’s minister of communications, innovation and digital economy, Bosun Tijani, the hike tops out at half of the 100% that mobile providers had been lobbying for...

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