NIN registration COVID-19 superspreader
Published 20 January 2021
Someone, alarmed by the unthinking directive of the Nigeria Communications Commission requesting Nigerians to immediately obtain the National Identification Number from the lethargic National Identity Management Commission and link it to the Subscriber Identification Module of their mobile telephones in just two weeks, sent in this text message:
“Dear Lekan… I will like to draw your attention (to the) mindless endangering of the lives of Nigerians by the NIN registration deadlines in the heat of the (COVID-19) pandemic (that is) ravaging the nation.
“The NIN centres are potential (COVID-19) superspreaders given the resulting desperation. Please, please, let the world know what the government is doing to the people by this totally unnecessary crisis at this time.”