Zillah💜
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@R_J_Shaw @pretty_sarlin Me looking for this comment cuz I can’t be the only one seeing it
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Let me tell you one of the greatest corporate scams running in Nigeria right now and it has not gotten the outrage it deserves.
Why should your data expire?
It is not that the internet ran out of space or because the bandwidth disappeared or because anything technical happened to the gigabytes sitting in your account.
But because MTN, Airtel, and Glo wrote an expiry date on something that has no natural reason to expire.
Think about it this way. You buy a bag of rice. You do not finish it in one week. Does the rice disappear? You buy a generator. You do not use it every day. Does the fuel in the tank evaporate on a schedule? You buy land. You do not build on it immediately. Does the land expire?
Data is a product you purchased. It is sitting in a server allocated to your number. The infrastructure cost of holding that data for an extra 30 days is effectively zero. There is no physical depletion happening. The expiry date exists for one reason only. To force you to buy again before you are ready.
That kind of service model is a designed extraction system. They sell you a product, attach an artificial scarcity clock to it, and collect the unused balance as silent profit when the timer runs out. Multiply that by 150 million subscribers and you start to understand the size of the robbery.
MTN’s Nigerian revenue last year ran into hundreds of billions of naira. A meaningful portion of that is money Nigerians paid for data they never used because the clock ran out.
And the NCC, the regulator sitting in Abuja collecting salary to protect consumers, has done precisely nothing about it.

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I just confirmed that @MTNNG steals data from their users‼️‼️💔
I’ve been having suspicions that MTN have been stealing data because of the rate at which my data finishes so fast even if I don’t download anything
So yesterday by 3:52 PM I bought 11GB data for 3500 naira
I put my phone on power saving mode so no app in the background will be able to use data
I didn’t download or upload any videos and I’ve been using my phone lightly.
I felt like all this wasn’t enough so i decided to download an app that tracks my data usage
This afternoon MTN sent me a message that I have just 4GB of data left
Checked the app and saw I used only 3GB from the 11GB I bought yesterday
Now my question to MTN is this
If I used 3GB from 11GB that means I should have 8GB left
Why do I have just 4GB left?
Where did my remaining 4GB go???
All evidence attached in the screenshots below👇👇👇
We need to call out MTN for these recent thefts as I’m sure I’m not the only one facing this problem



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@Dangana_Jr_ @NyscPadi Yes but it showed not successful so I was trying to send it again but I couldn’t select reason and state
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@ZillahReal it's only Abuja and lagos that can see their letter on their portal
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@Nysc_Guidee Does nursing/pregnant mothers need to go back to camp after registration for the pop
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