Pat Utomi
Emma Okonji writes that the recent directives by the federal government compelling telecoms operators to suspend the sale and activation of new SIM cards and to within a two-week period, link all registered SIM cards to National Identification Number, is an onerous task as subscribes kick against the directives
Nigerian telecoms subscribers with over 207 million active registered lines, last week, were taken by surprise when the federal government issued two directives, compelling telecoms operators to immediately suspend the registration and activation of new SIM cards, until the completion of the audit of the Subscriber Registration Database, while the other directive compelled telecoms subscribers to submit their NIN to their telecoms service providers within two weeks, from December 16 to 30 to enable service providers synchronise all registered SIM cards to NINs.
By Oghenevwede Ohwovoriole
Telecom operators, who fail to comply with the new SIM card registration policy may have their licences withdrawn, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), has warned.
A statement issued by the Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, said this was part of the decisions taken after an emergency stakeholders’ meeting.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, the statement said, has already set up a ministerial task force to monitor the implementation of the new registration policy of the federal government.
According to the NCC, from the decisions reached at the emergency stakeholders’ meetings, any telecoms operator in violation of the directive risks possible licence withdrawal.
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Cork s heroin problem: How did we get here?
Cork s Northside was first identified as a heroin blackspot by the Ministerial Task Force in 1996. File picture: Eddie O Hare
Thu, 17 Dec, 2020 - 19:56
James Leonard
This week in Cork District Court there was the case of a mother who was in front of the judge charged with neglect, relating to an incident in 2017 where gardaí came across her and her partner injecting heroin in a cabin at the back of a derelict house in front of her three-year-old son.
How did we get to this? This type of case is something we’ve heard about in other cities like Dublin, Liverpool and Manchester but not Cork. How did Cork get to this point?
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