The management of the Nigerian Communications Commission has controverted a statement credited to the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria, Olusegun Ogunsanya which clained that the network provider’s licence has been renewed.
Mr. Ogunsanya was said to have made the statement while speaking in Lagos on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, during the media launch of Airtel’s corporate social responsibility programme, ‘Touching Lives 6’.
In a statement signed by the Commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, issued Sunday, the regulator stated that “The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been drawn to a recent statement on an online publication credited to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Olusegun Ogunsanya, to the effect that the mobile operating licence of Airtel has been renewed by the Commission for another period of 10 years.
The Commission while putting the records straight said it wishes ” to state that while Airtel Nigeria has applied for the renewal of the Unified Access Service (UASL) Licence granted to it by the Commission, the application is yet to be approved as it is still undergoing required regulatory process.
“This statement is issued for the guidance of our stakeholders,” it concluded.