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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 ...
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 telecoms operators to immediately suspend the registration and activation of new SIM cards, until the ...
By Oghenevwede Ohwovoriole Telecom operators, who fail to comply with the new SIM card registration policy may have their licences withdrawn, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), has warned. A statement issued by the Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, said this was part of the decisions taken after an emergency stakeholders’ meeting. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, the statement said, has already set up a ministerial task force to monitor the implementation of the new registration policy of the federal government. According to t...
SIM cards without NIN to be blocked in January SIM cards without NIN to be blocked in January Share The Federal Government has said that any telecoms subscriber who fails to submit his/her National Identity Number (NIN) to its network provider would be blocked from the network from December 31. This is just as the government reaffirmed its position on suspension of new SIM card registration across the country. This was part of the decisions reached at a stakeholders meeting convened by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami. This is contained in a statement signed...