Some Nigerians on social media have slammed the Nigerian Communications Commission for asking them to submit the International Mobile Equipm.
Some Nigerians on social media have slammed the Nigerian Communications Commission for asking them to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity of their mobile phones to the commission.
According to them, the NCC should leave decent Nigerians alone and focus on how to track kidnappers and bandits who use their phones to contact families of victims to demand ransom.
It was earlier reported that the NCC, in its Revised National Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration, called for Nigerians to submit the IMEI numbers of their phones to the commission from July.
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The agency, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, described the report as false.
NCC insisted that at no time did the Commission issue a Statement regarding the registration of IMEI by subscribers and it has no plans to do so.
“The reports in question have emanated from a section of the Revised National Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration recently launched by President Muhammadu Buhari and which has been uploaded on the Commission’s website,” the statement added.
“It is pertinent to state that the Commission is in the process of deploying a Device Management System (DMS).
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The Federal Government has denied issuing a directive asking Nigerians to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) of their mobile phones to the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.
A media aide to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Yusuf Abubakar in an interview with
Vanguardsaid the ministry was surprised to see the story when it never issued such directive.
Recall that a report in some sections of the media today reported that the federal government issued a directive asking Nigerians to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) of their mobile phones to the commission from July 2021.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that subscribers do not have to submit their International Mobile Equipment Identity numbers to the agency as the data will be captured automatically.
Respomding to
The PUNCH story on Friday that the regulatory agency would require subscribers phone IMEIs in three months, the commission said it would rather automatically capture the phone identifying numbers without reference to subscribers.
In a statement signed by NCC’s Director, Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, the commission said, “At no time did the commission issue a statement regarding the registration of IMEI by subscribers and it has no plans to do so.