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Stakeholders in the telecoms sector have said the ongoing SIM-NIN integration process, if successfully completed, will enable Nigeria to have a credible identity management system. They, therefore, reiterated their support for the initiative and the need to ensure that it is successful, since governments had in the past tried to achieve a single database for identity management system, but to no avail, a situation that has left Nigeria’s national identity ecosystem in a very porous state. The Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), Mr. Gbenga Adebay...

Nigeria’s teledensity rose by 2.2 per cent from 104.4 per cent to 106.6 per cent in October, increasing the number of telecom subscribers to 203.5m, said the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). However, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) was only able to register paltry 42m Nigerians in 10 years the enrolment exercise started.   173 agents for ID registration – FG But the federal government said it believed the task would be achieved as it had licensed 173 centres and 30 state government institutions to conduct the enrolment of the National Identity Number (NIN) acr...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 24 December 2020 IFE OGUNFUWA examines the impact of a government regulation that aims to harmonise digital identity with mobile network subscribers’ registration records for over 200 million Nigerians in 10 weeks It is less than 10 days to the end of the year and Nigerians, who are supposed to be in a festive mood to celebrate their survival despite the challenging year, are in a race to beat the deadline set for SIM records update by  the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami. With the threat to cut off any Nigerian, who has no...

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 ...

Nigerian Government Under Fire As 164 Million Phones Risk Disconnection In response to an enquiry on how many Nigerians currently had NINs, the spokesperson, NIMC, Kayode Adegoke, replied, "43 million." by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 17, 2020 Over 164 million phone lines may be disconnected by December 31 if their owners fail to integrate their National Identity Numbers to Subscriber Identification Modules registration records. Punch gathered from the National Identity Management Commission on Wednesday that the number of Nigerians with NINs was about 43 million. Punchng In response to an e...