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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 with their Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) or risk being disconnected. Residents of Delta ...

  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 explained that the data of Nigerians being sought already exist in several platforms, including the Bank V...

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) Mr Aliyu Abubakar to stop the move. SERAP explained that the data of Nigerians being sought already e...

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 to him, the two weeks ultimatum given for the SIM registration is “unreasonably too short and unre...

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 implementation of the directive, the Executive Vice Chairman NCC and the Director-General of NIMC info...