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MTN Nigeria subscribers yesterday said the telecoms operator’s recharge cards are still being sold to them above the stated retail prices.

Recharge cards vendors have been adding N10 or N20 to the price of each MTN recharge card denomination in the last two weeks, a development dealers blamed on MTN who, they said, had increased the prices at which it used to sell the cards to them.
MTN had denied increasing the retail prices of its recharge cards, saying any variance from the authorised face value of recharge cards is without MTN’s knowledge or authority.
Many subscribers and vendors spoken to by Daily Trust yesterday confirmed that N10 or N20 is still being added on various denominations of the cards.
Uche Sunny, a journalist, told Daily Trust in Abuja that some vendors in the city centre have stopped the addition but those in the satellite towns have not.
He said: “I believe the vendors or dealers would not have been adding the extra amounts if MTN had not jerked up its cards prices. So, MTN should do something now or they will lose me as their customer.”
But MTN’s Corporate Services Executive Wale Goodluck said: “We have not effected a price increase and the retail prices of the various denominations of our recharge cards and recharge vouchers remain the same. The recharge vouchers come in the following denominations: N1, 500, N750, N400, N200 and N100.”

 The Taraba Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Kwaji, confirmed the incident and said the Jalingo Division of the police had commenced investigation into the matter.
Tanko, according to an eyewitness, Alhaji Jibrin Bala, set himself ablaze because his family refused to approve his wedding with a girl, Blessing.
The eyewitness told sympathisers that Tanko introduced Blessing to his father as his proposed wife, but the father kicked against the union, describing it as a bad choice.
Bala said efforts by the father to convince his son to look for another girl failed, as he insisted that he could not survive without Blessing.
The eyewitness added that Tanko suddenly left his father and went to a corner in the compound, where he poured petrol on his body and set himself ablaze.
“When we suddenly saw fire, everybody ran toward the corner of the compound, only to see Tanko burning.
“The father and other people in the compound tried to rescue Tanko from the fire, but failed as the flame was much and we could not move near,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said, Tanko’s father is currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo, for injuries sustained while trying to rescue the son from the fire.