Owing to the xenophobic attacks in South Africa which is affecting Nigerians, MTN's head office in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has been shut after protesters tried to storm it.

Ceoafrica gathered that policemen are guarding the building of the South African-owned firm, and that staffs have been evacuated, with entry and exit, barred.

Earlier, a crowd had protested at the building against attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.

Corroborating the occurrence, an MTN spokesman in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, said the offices in Nigeria have been attacked and vandalised in apparent retaliation for anti-Nigerian violence in South Africa.

The spokesman who preferred not to be named said “they vandalised equipment, stole customer phones and I-Pads and even attacked some customers ".

MTN Group, formerly M-Cell, is a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African, European and Asian countries, which has its head office, in Johannesburg, South Africa.