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Large Crowds Defy COVID-19 Protocols, Storm NIMC Abuja, Lagos Offices For NIN Registration Nigerians, in a bid to retain connectivity, have crowded NIMC offices to get their NINs and the pressure on the agencys website resulted in its shutdown last week. by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 29, 2020 Several Nigerians have again gathered at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Lagos and Abuja, to register for their National Identification Number (NIN). The Federal Gov...

Views: Visits 34 Lagosians on Tuesday stormed the state head office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) despite the extension of the SIM deactivation deadline. The residents arrived at the office as early as 6 am besieging the main gate of the NIMC office for the enrollment of the National Identification Number (NIN). However, frustration sets in as security men were trying to control the surge with many of them complaining about the slow pace of the exercise. Many ha...

Channels Television   Updated December 21, 2020   Large crowds gathered at the Alausa office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Lagos on Monday as the country continues to battle with a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal government, through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, this month issued a two-week ultimatum to all telecommunications operators in the country to block all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) without National Identi...

A file photo of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. The Federal Government has extended the deadline issued to all telecommunications operators in the country to block all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) without National Identification Number (NIN). This follows a meeting of the National Task Force on NIN and SIM Registration which held on Monday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The extension deadline issued to all telecommunications operators...

Large Crowd Gathers At NIMC Office In Lagos For NIN Registration Amid COVID-19 Second Wave The Nigerian government had last week issued an ultimatum to all telecommunications operators in the country to block all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) without National Identification Number (NIN). by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 21, 2020 Large crowds on Monday gathered at the Alausa office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Lagos in a bid to register and obtain the Natio...

NIN: Residents lay siege on Delta NIMC centre, violate COVID-19 protocols NIN: Residents lay siege on Delta NIMC centre, violate COVID-19 protocols Share Some residents of Delta State violated COVID-19 protocols when they laid siege on the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) centre in the bid to register for the National Identification Number (NIN) on Monday. The rush to register for the NIN is furtherance to the directive by the Federal Government asking Nigerians to link their NIN...

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the push for registration of Nigerians for National Identity Number (NIN), and withdraw the threat to block SIM cards. The Human Rights group in a statement on Sunday asked the President to “instruct the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr Isa Pantami, and Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission, (NIMC) Mr Aliyu Abubakar to stop the move. SERAP explai...

A photo of NIMC card used to illustrate the story Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the push for registration of Nigerians for National Identity Number (NIN), and withdraw the threat to block SIM cards. The Human Rights group in a statement on Sunday asked the President to “instruct the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr Isa Pantami, and Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission, (NIMC) M...

By Henry Ojelu Former 2nd Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Monday Ubani, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to stop the Nigerian government and Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, from disconnecting all SIM cards not linked to the National Identity Number, NIN. Ubani, in the suit, argued that the directive of government was unreasonable and the threat to block peoples SIM card is an expression of intent to infringe on their rights to property. According ...

Channels Television     The Federal Government has ordered all network providers to cancel the N20 charge for the retrieval of the National Identification Number (NIN) with immediate effect.  Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy,  Isa Pantami gave the order in a statement issued on Friday. “The Minister’s directive which takes immediate effect is an intervention aimed at making the process easier and affordable,” the minister said. “In a letter conveying the im...