Reps kick against sale of NITEL and Mtel

The House of Representatives has kicked against the sale of the Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL) and its Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) subsidiary, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTEL) as one entity.
This came just as the bill for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) 2012 budget totaling N48, 836, 418.00b successfully scaled second reading.
Rather, the lawmakers urged the Federal Government to keep control of the national carrier for strategic reasons.