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A Federal High Court in Lagos is set to deliver judgment on Monday in a suit between WASPAN and the FCCPC over who regulates airtime lending servicesMTN, Airtel and Globacom suspended airtime borrowing services for about three months after the FCCPC moved to enforce its DEON Regulations 2025ALTON describes airtime credit as economic infrastructure worth between ₦300 billion and ₦400 billion annually, used by roughly 40 million Nigerians
More than 40 million Nigerians who rely on airtime borrowing services could know the future of one of the country’s most widely used telecom products on Monday, July 20, as the Federal High Court in Lagos delivers judgment in a landmark regulatory dispute between the Wireless Application Service Providers Association of Nigeria (WASPAN) and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC).
Millions of Nigerians could soon know whether FCCPC has the power to regulate airtime borrowing Photo: BloombergSource: Getty Images
The suit, marked FHC/L/CS/760/2026,
