Tariff hike: MultiChoice queries tribunal’s jurisdiction to issue order

Nigeria Limited has queried the jurisdictional capacity of the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal to issue an order barring it from hiking its tariffs.

Onigbanjo, the immediate past Attorney General of Lagos State, said he also filed a memorandum of conditional appearance on the same April 30. The tribunal had on April 29 issued an ex-parte interim injunction restraining MultiChoice from increasing DSTV and GOTV tariffs scheduled to begin on May 1, pending the determination of the case, marked: CCPT/OP/02/2024, filed by a lawyer, Festus Onifade, who claimed to also be a subscriber.

In a supporting document, Onifade claimed that despite being aware of the order, which was duly served on MultiChoice on April 29, the firm deliberately neglected to comply with the order and willfully increased the tariffs on its products and services on May 1.He recalled that in 2015, Justice C.

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