The ongoing dispute over Nigeria’s airtime lending market has shifted attention from questions of consumer protection and market control to concerns over regulatory transparency, evidence-based policymaking, and due process.
Industry stakeholders have raised questions over the process through which the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) extended its digital lending regulations to cover telecom airtime credit services, arguing that key regulatory decisions were made without sufficient disclosure of supporting assessments.
The concerns were highlighted by Ladi Ogunseye, a startup operator and writer on consumer behaviour, entrepreneurship, business strategy, and marketing technology, who argued that the debate has increasingly been framed around national sovereignty rather than the regulatory issues at the centre of the dispute.
The legal challenge before the Federal High Court, Lagos, in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/760/2026 was filed by Nigerian-registered technology companies under the Wireless Application Service Providers Association of Nigeria (WASPAN), rather than foreign entities, according to
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