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Telecommunications

NIN registration hits 80.7 million weeks after SIM ban

The Nigeria Identity Management Commission has issued 80.7 million National Identification Numbers, exactly 19 days after the agency deactivated about 72 million telecommunication subscribers for failing to comply with the Federal Government’s NIN-Subscriber Identity Module policy. The data on NIMC’s portal showed that the number of issued NINs hit 80.7 million on April 23, 2022, […]

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SIM-NIN: Telcos lose N76bn, subscribers stranded

Telecommunication companies have lost about N75.78bn as subscribers struggle to link their National Identification Number to the Subscriber Identity Module, about 22 days after the Federal Government directed telecom companies to bar defaulting consumers from making outgoing calls. On April 4, the Federal Government directed telcos to restrict outgoing calls on all lines that had […]

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Telecommunications

NIN: Bar outgoing calls from unlinked SIMs, FG orders telcos

The Federal Government has ordered telecommunications operators including MTN, Globacom, Airtel, and 9mobile to bar all outgoing calls of all Subscriber Identification Module cards not yet linked with the National Identification Number effective today, April 4, 2022. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, announced this in a statement on Monday, saying that the […]