Nigeria youths 'attack MTN office in Abuja'

MTN's regional office in Abuja reportedly shut down its operations on Wednesday following attacks by irate youths presumably protesting over the on-going xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

Quoting the Daily Sun newspaper, Naij.com said a group of more than 100 youths converged at the MTN premises carrying placards with different inscriptions.

Apparently worried that more attacks could follow, the MTN office immediately shut down its operations, the report said.

MTN staff said services would be suspended until the xenophobic attacks faded away and stability returned to South Africa.

MTN Nigeria warned early this week that any attack on its facilities could force it to close shop, a development that could see at least 99 percent of its over 6 000 workforce in the country become jobless, a newswirengr.com report said.

This comes as Nigeria's foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned South Africa's High Commissioner over anti-immigrant violence.