THE PUBLIC SPHERE with Chido Nwakanma
Three of the four GSM service providers lead the list of 203 firms the Nigerian Identity Management Commission appointed 16 December as Data Capture Agents to assist it with the registration of Nigerians into the identity database. It came on the commencement of a peremptory two-week deadline for citizens wishing to continue using their phone lines to ensure the integration of their National Identity Numbers (NIN) with their SIM cards domiciled with the telcos. I questioned the rationale for such an imperious order given the circumstance of COVID-19, environmental conditions, time of year, and experience of citizens with attempts at getting either the NIN or the national ID before it.
Here are 173 approved NIN registration centres nationwide
In a bid to ensure proper registration of SIM cards, the Federal Government has approved 173 centres and 30 state government institutions to conduct.
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Thu Dec 17 2020
In a bid to ensure proper registration of SIM cards, the Federal Government has approved 173 centres and 30 state government institutions to conduct the enrolment of all persons into the National Identity Database (NIDB) on behalf of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
NIMC announced the move on its website on Wednesday.
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved 173 centres and 30 State government institutions for the National Identity Number, NIN, enrollment across Nigeria.
It made this known in a public notice on the official website of the National Identity Management Commission titled, “Approved Data Capturing Agents (Digital Identity Ecosystem)”.
DAILY POST recalls that this is coming less than 24 hours after the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, had asked telecommunications operators in the country to block SIM cards not registered with NIN after two weeks.
Nevertheless, the House of Representatives had urged NCC to extend the deadline for the provision of NIN by 1-year.