Nigeria's largest telecom operator, MTN, has reported over 5,400 fiber-optic cable cuts in the first seven months of 2025, warning that these frequent disruptions are affecting service quality and slowing digital progress. Speaking at the 10th edition of the New Media Conference in Lagos on. Nigeria's telecommunications industry is facing a worsening crisis of infrastructure vandalism and theft, with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) revealing that over 35,000 fibre optic cuts and 3,168 theft-related incidents have already been recorded across the country in 2025 alone — a. The federal ministry of works and the federal ministry of communications, innovation, and digital economy have established a joint standing committee on the protection of fibre optic cables in Nigeria.