{"id":369616,"date":"2020-01-30T15:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=369616"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:24:26","slug":"mtn-drops-case-against-nigerias-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/369616\/mtn-drops-case-against-nigerias-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN drops case against Nigeria\u2019s attorney-general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN announced today that it has dropped its case against Nigeria\u2019s attorney-general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, MTN Nigeria appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria to formally discontinue its legal action against the Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Minister of Justice (the AGF),\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis follows from the decision of the AGF to hand the matter over to the relevant regulatory authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MTN Nigeria previously filed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/305388-mtn-nigeria-lawsuit-to-go-forward.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>lawsuit<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0after the AGF issued a demand for unpaid duties and taxes, with the company challenging the authority of the AGF to deal with issues around tax and custom duties.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/334922-mtn-share-price-surges-after-nigeria-drops-tax-claim.html\" target=\"-blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>dropped<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0its $2-billion tax claim against MTN group earlier this month, ending the 16-month long fight between the company and the Attorney-General.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s share price surged following that announcement, and MTN has now laid the matter to rest by dropping its legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile operator said it remains committed to its Nigerian market, where it has around 65 million customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTN remains committed to meeting its fiscal responsibilities and contributing to the social and economic development of Nigeria in collaboration with all stakeholders,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/369420\/mtn-launches-mobile-money-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MTN launches Mobile Money in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN announced today that it has dropped its case against Nigeria\u2019s attorney-general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":355607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-369616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369618,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369616\/revisions\/369618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}