About 29 million telecom users are yet to link their National Identity Numbers to their SIM cards even as the first deadline given to subscribers expires Tuesday.

A top federal government official told Daily Trust on Monday that about 176m SIM cards had been linked to their owners’ NINs.

The government had given January 19 and February 9 deadlines for subscribers already with NINs and those without NINs respectively to link their SIMs with their unique identity numbers.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim Pantami’s spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, did not respond to Daily Trust’s enquiry seeking to know what would be the fate of those who failed to do the linkage before the deadline.

The Nigerian Communications Commission had said there would not be mass disconnection of telecom subscribers as a result of the ongoing linkage of NIN records to SIM Registration, Igbere TV reports.

“A recent survey conducted in Nigeria has shown that on average, there are now approximately 4 to 5 SIMs to every human subscriber.

“This explains the basis of allowing the linkage of up to 7 SIMs to 1 unique NIN in the recently launched Federal Government Portal”, NCC had said in a recent statement.

NextD18:
Most Nigerians are so ignorant and too stubborn to follow instructions.

Negligence!!

jagaban002:

You saying rubbish with confidence .
Do you know how many millions of Nigerians wake up as early as 4 to 5am to que at the nimc center and they will still not attend to them except those that pay when with the rate of covid 19 and you called that stubborn and ignorance .
You are very very stupid for calling We Nigerian ignorant instead of the goverment

duro4chang:
They should do their worst.We all know how difficult it is to get registered. During election machines will be available on every street but now the machines to register is just about ten in some states.
There shouldn't have been deadline at all. It should be a continuous process.

UtopiaDream:


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badaru911:
.... 176 million linked... I don't believe it...

176m SIM cards had been linked to their owners’ NINs.

About 29 million telecom users are yet to link their National Identity Numbers to their SIM cards

NextD18:
Most Nigerians are so ignorant and too stubborn to follow instructions.

Negligence!!

SaintLucia:
And in another BREAKING NEWS, IPOB members are rushing to register for their NIN before the deadline given.