MTN Nigeria to close 101 websites for community upkeep on October 25

MTN Nigeria has introduced plans to hold out a scheduled community upkeep train on Saturday, October 25, 2025, that can briefly disrupt connectivity throughout components of Adamawa, Borno, and Kano States.

In accordance with MTN, the two-hour upkeep window, from 6:00 a.m. to eight:00 a.m., will have an effect on 101 community websites throughout 15 Native Authorities Areas within the three states.

The telecom big defined that the deliberate work is a part of a long-term effort to enhance service reliability and strengthen its fibre infrastructure in northern Nigeria.

The exercise entails a fibre cutover on a newly relocated cable phase between AFCOT and Bawo Village, changing beforehand broken spans and decreasing a number of joints which have affected optical efficiency and community stability.

Affected areas

MTN disclosed that the affected areas embody Nasarawa LGA in Kano State; Girei, Track, Mubi North, Hong, Gombi, Fufore, Mubi South, Madagali, Michika, Maiha, Chibok, and Yola North in Adamawa State; in addition to Askira/Uba and Shani in Borno State.

• The corporate famous that providers on 2G, 3G, 4G, and 10 enterprise connections will probably be unavailable through the upkeep window because of the linear and unprotected nature of the fibre route.
• MTN mentioned the intervention builds on an earlier community restoration train performed in August 2025 alongside the identical AFCOT–Bawo fibre route.
• This subsequent section, it added, is a extra complete improve designed to get rid of long-term faults and guarantee extra secure connectivity for patrons within the area.
• Whereas acknowledging that prospects could expertise non permanent service disruptions, the corporate expressed remorse over any inconvenience triggered.

“MTN regrets any inconvenience this may occasionally trigger and appreciates prospects’ understanding,” the assertion learn.

What you need to know

Earlier in August, MTN introduced an analogous scheduled upkeep in the identical states to repair broken fibre cable.

In the meantime, all of the telecom operators proceed to face incidence of fibre cuts resulting in service disruptions and community outages.

• Only in the near past, Nairametrics reported that residents of three Nigerian states have been going through community blackout as MTN and 9mobile endure simultaneous fibre cuts in Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara.
• In August, the Govt Vice Chairman of the NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida, expressed grave concern over the growing injury to telecommunications infrastructure nationwide, revealing that MTN, Airtel, 9mobile, and different telecom operators now report a median of 1,100 fibre cuts each week.
• To deal with the disaster, he mentioned the Fee has adopted a multi-pronged technique involving technical enforcement, public sensitisation, and collaboration with nationwide safety businesses.

Telecom infrastructure had been formally designated as Important Nationwide Data Infrastructure (CNII) by President Bola Tinubu beneath Part 3 of the Cybersecurity Act—putting a nationwide safety duty on operators, service suppliers, civil society, and residents alike.