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Nigeria said it was expecting telecoms giant MTN to meet a deadline for paying a record $3.9 billion fine which expires Thursday, despite the South African operator challenging the penalty in court. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country’s telecoms regulator, had in October fined the firm for missing a …

MTN is the market leader in Nigeria’s mobile-phone marketMTN Group Ltd.’s biggest market is now its worst headache.Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator (NCC) last week slapped the mobile-phone operator with a $5.2 billion fine, wiping almost 20 percent off its market value over the space of four days. There is a lot …