One MTN Nigeria subscriber, Godfrey Eneye, who also happens to be a lawyer, has won a lawsuit against MTN Nigeria (winning N3 million in damages in the process) in which he alleged that the South Africa-based company violated his privacy by giving his subscriber information to third-party entities to send him unsolicited texts.

The respondent (MTN) offers and provides a bulk SMS message service to customers and permits the sending of bulk messages by individuals, organisations and other bodies through their network upon certain specified conditions agreed between the respondent and the respective subscribers to the said bulk SMS service,” read Eneye’s suit against MTN Nigeria, according to a Punch Online report…