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Thursday, 3 December 2015

MTN Nigeria's CEO Michael Ikpoki resigns

MTN Nigeria’s CEO Michael Ikpoki has resigned. The company's head of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Akinwale Goodluck has also resigned with immediate effect.

Ikpoki has been replaced by Ferdi Moolman as MTN Nigeria CEO while Goodluck has been replaced by Amina Oyagbola as its head of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs. Read the press statement released my MTN group after the cut...


“MTN Nigeria’s CEO Michael Ikpoki and the head of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Akinwale Goodluck have tendered their resignations with immediate effect,” the company said in a statement Thursday morning. “They are replaced by Ferdi Moolman as MTN Nigeria CEO and Amina Oyagbola as its head of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs. Mr Moolman was previously COO at MTN Irancell and most recently CFO at MTN Nigeria.

A Nigerian national, Ms Oyagbola also retains the position of MTN Nigeria’s Head of Human Resources. She formerly headed regulatory affairs at the Nigerian operating company.” The company also said it has received a formal letter dated December 2 from the NCC informing it that, “after considering the Company’s request, it has taken the decision to reduce the fine on the MTN Nigerian business from the original N1,040,000,000,000 (One Trillion, Forty Billion Naira) to N674 Billion Naira which has to be paid by 31 December 2015.”

The fine relates to the late disconnecting of 5.1 million MTN Nigeria subscribers in August and September 2015.

35 comments:

  1. Hmmmmmm
    De drama is getting more serious and interesting
    Odikwa egwu really
    Let's kip watching hw it wil all end

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  2. No wonder I can't receive calls on my MTN line, wishing him all the best, he should've resigned after New year. his wish tho

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  3. Wat the fine by NCC has caused.

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  4. Wow!

    Nice restructuring and I hope dis goes a long way to effect and impact d necessary changes in MTN.

    Comment frm ROYAL PRIESTHOOD (royalpriesthood007@gmail.com)

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  5. Their resignation won't stop MTN from paying dat fine. Dey must pay. Linda take note!

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  6. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    Wishing him happy resignation though... #NowPlaying>> bosi kpa kpa: xp
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  7. Whatever!

    Your comment will be visible after approval.

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  8. Goodnews!

    Mayb they wil start treating their call centre agents well instead of outsourcing them lik they r modern day slaves.

    Comment frm ROYAL PRIESTHOOD (royalpriesthood007@gmail.com)

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  9. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......(in noisy Yoruba pple's voice). NO WONDER MY LINE HAS BEEN CRACKING OVER A WEAK NOW. Mh!....SEEING MTN DECLINING IN EFFICIENCY.

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  10. Why the consideration on the initial fine of N1.04billion? Could the reduction be the reason for the 9-page advert in The Guardian of today? The fact that they are involved in CSR with those scholarship grants does not mean that they should strangulate us economically. After all, we are not disposed to their Management Accounts which is where the 'real deal' lies. I do not subscribe to the soft-pedal approach handed out to them. The fine is meant to serve as a deterrent and should have remained non-negotiable. Has anybody bothered to examine the quantum of capital flight going on in that office? Our Regulators must rise up to the occasion; otherwise, operators in difference areas will take them for a ride!

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  11. They should quickly drop all their stupid ambassadors na, them davido Tiwa iyanya wizkid n the rest, Wat value are they adding to the brand, if not to stop a car n start playing eminado in one of their stupid advert. Some of them don't even use mtn sef. Drop some of them n pay ur fine, shikena.




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  12. They must pay that fine tho!!! Its a must

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  13. What about the other management staff? what are they waiting for. They better resign before they are forced to do so.

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  14. There had to be a victim. Sorry man.

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  15. Wowoo END TIME resignation wish u all the best

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  16. Sorry Man! http://www.bummyla.com

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  17. My guess will be that they tendered their resignation as a result of the fine MTN will pay.






















    #TeamBlessed#

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  18. Many more people are going to be jailed by Buhari administration for corruption. We have not seen anything yet.

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  19. Excellent news
    ~D great anonymous!

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  20. The federal government of Nigeria should compel MTN to become a publicly traded company seeing that they have made so much profit in Nigeria. The fine should then be used to buy shares into the publicly traded Nigeria branch of MTN such that MTN can profit for nigerians and stop being perceived as a foreign brand. Shikena.
    but our leaders don't think that way, they are probably already thinking of using the money to do public projects.

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  21. MTN should be barned! Or I wish a Nigerian could buy the company same as dstv

    ***LIBER FINEST***

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  22. dey shuld retire or force dem to retire..................criminals.................I HATE MTN with my spirit,soul and body.............useless and criminal network........#EFCC do ur work on MTN

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  23. No matter the amount NCC deducted. it'll still be us (NIGERIAN) that will be pay it indirectly.

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  24. Michael ikpoki, foolish man, long over due, greed, because of money u guys have no regards for ethics, u cling on to power till u die, shameless bunch

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