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Punch Newspapers Sections Femi Asu, Ife Ogunfuwa and Temiloluwa O’Peters  The inability to meet market demand for cement coupled with low production volume by major cement companies in Nigeria have driven prices up by 35 per cent. An investigation by The Punch indicated that a 50kg bag of cement, which cost between N2,400 and N2,600 as of September this year now sells for N3,500. Stakeholders attributed the recent hike in price which started in October this year to insufficient supply of the...

NIN: Confusion as Nigerians storm NIMC centres, shun COVID-19 rules Kindly share this story: Subscribers at the National Identity Management Commission office, Alausa, Lagos office of the commission…on Monday. Photo: @prinzgbemi • Government extends SIM linkage to NIN deadline till January Our Correspondents There was confusion at the National Identity Management Commission offices across the country on Monday as Nigerians thronged registration centres to obtain their National Identity Numb...

Punch Newspapers Sections Ife Ogunfuwa with agency report MTN says it has ordered 14,000 new devices to enrol and capture National Identity Numbers. The devices, it said, are expected to arrive in Nigeria in two weeks. The telecom company during an investors call on Thursday told shareholders that the Federal Government had granted MTN and other operators a licence to register the identities of Nigerians, Bloomberg  reported. “This will enable us to enrol NINs on behalf of the National Ident...

Nigeria records 5,809 COVID-19 cases in 10 days, NMA predicts NIN spike Our correspondents The Nigerian Medical Association on Thursday said that the Nigerian Communications Commission’s fresh directive on   the national identification number  could lead to a spike  in COVID-19 cases. The NCC had on Tuesday directed telephone companies to deactivate telephone lines of users who failed to link their NIN to subscribers’ identification modules within two weeks. Findings by one of our corre...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters The Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other groups have warned that Nigeria’s fragile economy cannot withstand another lockdown. MAN, the LCCI, and others, in separate interviews  with The PUNCH,  called on Nigerians to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures to prevent another lockdown. The groups gave the warning just as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, on Tuesday disclose...