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Mobile number portability (MNP) is a customer's strongest weapon in the telecommunications industry, because it strengthens the customer's ability to choose any network operator without losing his or her telecommunications 'identity'. MNP enables a user to switch from the current network service provider to another network operator without losing his or her telephone number, which to some extent is the customer's identity as it is unique to him or her and is a common means by which the customer is known and can be contacted. Technorati Tags: MTN , communication , NCC Some stakeholders see MNP as a revolutionary measure that leads to better service provision and improved customer satisfaction. Others opine that on its own, MNP does not guarantee a better quality of service, because if the original problem with the first operator was an overloaded network (ie, too many customers for the available network capacity), the same problem could afflict the new network if ...

Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were destroyed during a military raid to hunt down militant Islamists in the northern Nigerian town of Baga last month, a rights group has said. Close-up satellite images of Baga. The one on the left taken on 6 April 2013 and the one on the right on 26 April 2013, following the violence. (Source: Astrium) Human Rights Watch said soldiers “engaged more in destruction than in protection” after Boko Haram fighters attacked a military patrol. The army has not commented on the latest allegations. It has said 37 people were killed; others say more than 180 died. Community leaders dispute the army’s version of events. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Nigerian authorities to impartially investigate and prosecute soldiers responsible for recent violence in Baga. It said satellite images it had analysed undermined the military’s assertion that only 30 houses were destroyed during the fighting in Baga, a remote fishing community on the sh...

A 25-year-old man, David Nnebong was on Monday arrested for sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl, put under his care. Nneobong was said to have been living with the little girl’s grandmother, Iya Wura, who resides at 18 Awoseyin Street, Somolu. The victim’s grandmother was said to have left the victim in Nnebong’s care, but came back around 3pm and met the child crying and kept pointing at her private part; a gesture which ignited Iya’s suspicion. Reports say the victim’s mother currently resides in Calabar, Crosss River state, while the toddler is Nnebong’s cousin. A neighbour, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it was the girl’s cries that created the air of suspicion. He said, “It was the child who actually made Iya Wura know that David had raped her. The grandmother raised the alarm and all the neighbours pounced on David. “Although she was upset with David, Iya Wura and other relatives, who were present, did not want to get him arrested. “They only wanted him to leave th...

Nigeria’s ruling party said the opposition governor begged to join its fold.   The spokesperson of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, Olisa Metuh, has claimed that the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole , on several occasions, begged the leadership of the party to let him decamp to the PDP. He said the governor was consistently turned down by the Nigerian ruling party. Mr. Metuh, who spoke via a statement on Wednesday, “urged the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to be bold enough to tell Nigerians how many times he begged to join the PDP but was turned down”. ” The same PDP which Adams went on all fours, begging to join on several occasions has suddenly become the ” party of rogues” because of his desperation to justify the massive rigging and democratic aberration that was local government elections in Edo state. ” In 2007, Adams (Oshiomhole) begged to be given an opportunity under the Umbrella but we considered his governorship aspiration an assault...