For Nigerian Consumers And The FCCPC, It’s A Double Whammy At The Hands Of South Africans

By Olabode Opeseitan
There are moments when a single court ruling exposes a nation’s institutional vulnerabilities with the precision of a scalpel. One such moment arrived on April 15th, 2026, when Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, granted an interim injunction suspending Nigeria’s Digital, Electronic, Online, or Non-Traditional Consumer Lending Regulations 2025, a framework built specifically to give equal opportunities to Nigerian companies and open a N3 trillion market to Nigerian-owned fintechs. According to Premium Times, the injunction was secured through an ex parte motion filed by the Wireless Application Service Providers Associat...