By Abiola Olawale
Several parts of Nigeria, Ghana and west Africa at large are currently experiencing internet outages.
It was gathered that the outages were caused by damage to at least three subsea cables off the West Coast of Africa on Thursday.
This has caused massive frustration as several telecommunications subscribers and bank users were stranded for hours as the disruption paralysed digital transactions and internet communications.
According to reports, the damage occured on MainOne and ACE sea cables — two major arteries for telecommunications data.
Though the cause of the cable faults has not yet been determined as of press time, one of Nigeria’s major telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria, explained that the network outage experienced by its subscribers was as a “result of damage to international undersea cables across East & West Africa”.
“The repair process is ongoing to resolve the situation as soon as possible. Please look out for further updates,” the company said.
