On Thursday, March 14, 2024, the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) revealed that web service disruptions in Nigeria and neighboring international locations have been a results of the harm incurred.
“A mixture of cable cuts, leading to gear faults on the most important undersea cables alongside the West African Coast, have negatively impacted information and stuck telecom companies in a number of international locations of West Africa”
The NCC stated
In accordance with NetBlocks, a corporation 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.
Saying the event in a put up on its X deal with, the organisation stated, “Stay community information present right now’s telecoms disruption in #Africa has intensified; the incident has excessive influence 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 big, MTN, issued an apology to its prospects concerning the extended poor web companies.
In a press release on Thursday, the corporate attributed the problem to “a harm to worldwide undersea cables throughout East and West Africa.”
However, MTN assured prospects that efforts have 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.