Death by calls and messages from Network proviiders.

The average Nigerian has been sentenced to death by calls and messages by an unjust judge; network providers. 

The rate at which telecom network providers in this country send messages to the average Nigerian (their customers) has become a thing of worry. I find myself constantly wondering if the president also gets these irritating messages? or do the network providers save him and other aristocrats of this charade of pure madness! Anyway I can only wonder.

The average Nigerian has enough worries already, and the constant unnecessary buzzing of our phones is rather annoying. Our beloved lover electricity is just not loyal. She rarely stays at home, knowing very well that we depend on her for our 21st century lives. Having our network providers run down the battery of our stressfully charged phones is beyond inconsiderate. These messages keep pouring in day after day asking you to send 2 to 32500 for example, to receive a free gift that cost N100. Please how is this gift free if it costs N100 biko?

As though this is not enough, the network providers have gone a step further to now calling their customers, and when they noticed people ignore their calls, they devised yet another means. These days, an automated message can just appear on your phone without the usual message beep, and on the screen you find for instance, "press yes to accept this offer and no to decline". Given your phone did not beep and you have no idea a message is on your phone, you may mistakenly press yes to accept. It has happened to me a lot of times. The consequence of pressing yes to accept is a phenomenon we are very conversant with. N100 or N200 would be automatically deducted from your balance. Not having money on your phone  does not exonerate you from this because they are vindictive enough to wait for your next recharge, whenever it may be, to deduct their money.

If our network providers can expend the amount of energy they spend on advising themselves through these messages and calls, on improving on their largely crappy network supply, our network services would be one of the best in africa. Plus, I really don't understand why our telecom regulatory bodies are not doing anything about this situation.