CONSIDERING THE LEGAL TENABILITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW SIM REGISTRATION RULES On November 7, 2011, the Federal Government of Nigeria passed the Communications Commission ("Registration of Telephone Subscribers") Regulations 2 which required mobile phone subscribers to allow their finger prints and a biometric map of their faces to be collected and registered to their SIM cards, which are then stored in a central government database. Subsequently, on December 9, 2020, the Nigerian Communications Commission ("NCC") issued a directive for the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators. 3 The dust had barely settled when on the 15 th of December 2020, the NCC issued a fresh directive titled "Implementation of New SIM