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Stakeholders in the telecoms sector have said the ongoing SIM-NIN integration process, if successfully completed, will enable Nigeria to have a credible identity management system. They, therefore, reiterated their support for the initiative and the need to ensure that it is successful, since governments had in the past tried to achieve a single database for identity management system, but to no avail, a situation that has left Nigeria’s national identity ecosystem in a very porous state. ...

Nigeria’s teledensity rose by 2.2 per cent from 104.4 per cent to 106.6 per cent in October, increasing the number of telecom subscribers to 203.5m, said the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). However, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) was only able to register paltry 42m Nigerians in 10 years the enrolment exercise started.   173 agents for ID registration – FG But the federal government said it believed the task would be achieved as it had licensed 173 centres and...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 24 December 2020 IFE OGUNFUWA examines the impact of a government regulation that aims to harmonise digital identity with mobile network subscribers’ registration records for over 200 million Nigerians in 10 weeks It is less than 10 days to the end of the year and Nigerians, who are supposed to be in a festive mood to celebrate their survival despite the challenging year, are in a race to beat the deadline set for SIM records update by  the Minister of Com...

Pat Utomi Emma Okonji writes that the recent directives by the federal government compelling telecoms operators to suspend the sale and activation of new SIM cards and to within a two-week period, link all registered SIM cards to National Identification Number, is an onerous task as subscribes kick against the directives Nigerian telecoms subscribers with over 207 million active registered lines, last week, were taken by surprise when the federal government issued two directives, compelling te...

Nigerian Government Under Fire As 164 Million Phones Risk Disconnection In response to an enquiry on how many Nigerians currently had NINs, the spokesperson, NIMC, Kayode Adegoke, replied, "43 million." by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 17, 2020 Over 164 million phone lines may be disconnected by December 31 if their owners fail to integrate their National Identity Numbers to Subscriber Identification Modules registration records. Punch gathered from the National Identity Management Commission o...

The Federal Government had announced that the price of data has been reduced by more than 50 percent following a directive that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) should put in place measures to that effect. A statement from the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ibrahim Pantami, said the price of data of 1GB had been reduced from N1000 to N487, beginning from last November. Pantami said it was in line with the directive he gave to NCC to put measures in place to r...

•Subscribers protest suspension of new registration Emma Okonji Following the earlier directive issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on the suspension of new SIM card registration by network operators, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, on Monday, issued a fresh directive that makes it compulsory for all SIM cards to be linked to National Identity Number (NIN). The minister, who gave the fresh directive on Monday in Abuja when he convened an...