On Thursday, March 14, 2024, the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) revealed that web service disruptions in Nigeria and neighboring international locations had been a results of the injury incurred.
“A mix of cable cuts, leading to gear faults on the main undersea cables alongside the West African Coast, have negatively impacted information and glued telecom providers in a number of international locations of West Africa”
The NCC mentioned
In response to NetBlocks, a company specializing in cybersecurity and web governance monitoring, the connectivity disruption is impacting eight West African international locations, together with Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and the Benin Republic.
Asserting the event in a submit on its X deal with, the organisation mentioned, “Stay community information present as we speak’s telecoms disruption in #Africa has intensified; the incident has excessive affect to West Africa with important reductions in connectivity evident throughout the continent; operators report a number of subsea cable failures.”
Confirming the disruption, Nigeria’s telecommunications large, MTN, issued an apology to its prospects relating to the extended poor web providers.
In an announcement on Thursday, the corporate attributed the problem to “a injury to worldwide undersea cables throughout East and West Africa.”
Nonetheless, MTN assured prospects that efforts had been underway to expedite decision. Corroborating this, the NNC’s Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, said that cable operators had pledged to work tirelessly to revive web service to the affected international locations.