A call to Nigeria’s 112 emergency number failed to connect during a live television test on Tuesday after APC campaign spokesperson Alwan Hassan invited the presenter to try the service.
Hassan was speaking to Seun Okinbaloye on Channels Television’s Politics Today, according to reports by Vanguard and Daily Post.
Okinbaloye dialled the number during the programme but said it was not working. Hassan suggested that a network problem might explain the failure and maintained that he had successfully used the line before, Vanguard reported.
Daily Post said its own subsequent attempt to reach the number also failed. The reported calls do not establish whether the service was unavailable across the country.
Hassan said emergency communication centres were meant to receive calls, establish the nature of the emergency and contact the appropriate responders. Medical cases would go to ambulance services, while security incidents would be passed to the nearest police station.
He said the Abuja centre was ready but that centres nationwide still needed to be aligned, a process he expected to finish by March 2027. That timetable was Hassan’s account, not an independently confirmed completion date.
The reports did not establish the cause of the failed calls.
Sources: Vanguard; Daily Post
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