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ABUJA (Reuters) – Workers resumed at MTN Nigeria on Friday after the country's labor union picketed the South African telecoms company over the rights of workers to join unions, the company said.
The Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC), the umbrella labor union in Africa's most populous nation, shut down MTN operations in Nigeria.
MTN Nigeria staff confirmed that they were allowed to enter offices for the first time on Friday during this week.
MTN said in a statement.
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South Africa's MTN is the biggest player in Nigeria's telecoms industry. The company is in the middle of an IPO process to list its Nigerian unity, as part of a settlement with the Nigerian government over unregistered SIM cards for which it was fined $ 1.7 billion fine in 2015.
Last year protesters attacked and vandalized MTN's head office in Abuja in apparent retaliation for anti-Nigerian violence in South Africa.
Reporting by Chijioke Ohuocha, David Evans editing
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