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The Federal Government has revealed that a significant part of the populace is yet to be registered into the National Identity Database (NIDB), which may be due to some challenges, and as such, necessitating an extension of the National Identification Number...

•NIMC working on challenges, issues NIN to 64.4m people •Telcos seek SLA agreement, set to activate 80,000 registration devices •Stakeholders worry about deadline, status of subscribers in trouble-prone areas The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has revealed that at least 140 million Nigerians are yet to enroll for the National Identity Number (NIN) in the…

The National Parent Teacher Association has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis at the University of Benin...

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Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, the Deputy National President of National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN), says there is a need for the

The recent lifting of the ban on new SIM card by the federal government will ease communication, writes Emma Okonji Nigeria has a large population of telecoms subscribers, which reached over 200 million as at January 2021, with a teledensity of 104.89 per cent. The figure, which keeps rising on a weekly basis, has placed Nigeria as the country with the fastest growing telecoms market in Africa and the entire world. However, one unique feature about Nigerian subscribers is that each adult Nigeri...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 3:57 am Subscriber groups have threatened to take legal action as soon as the new Unstructured Supplementary Service Data service charge of N6.98 takes effect. The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Communications Commission had announced that USSD services for financial transactions would be charged at a flat rate fee of N6.98 per transaction. This followed threats by the Mobile Network Operators to withdraw the USSD services from the banks due to an o...

Share The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) on Wednesday said one-month extension for the National Identification Number (NIN) registration by the Federal Government is not enough to capture all Nigerians. Mr Adeolu Ogunbanjo, President of the association, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that the Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had in December 2020 directed telecommun...

Stakeholders demand six-month NIN-SIM linkage deadline extension Temiloluwa O’Peters Stakeholders in the telecom space have called for further extension of the National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise by six months. They noted that the eight weeks extension given by government on Tuesday would not be enough going by the number of Nigerians yet to be registered, as well as other challenges with the NIN enrolment. Reacting to the extension, the Nationa...

Pantami said it was in line with the directive he gave to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on that. ‘The average cost of 1GB of data has reduced from the January 2020 cost of N1,000 to N487.18 in November, 2020,’ the minister had said in a statement by his Technical Assistant, Mr Femi Adeluyi. He had said the reduction was due to the implementation of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan (2020-2025) launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on March 19, 2020. “One of the goals of...