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The NCC Directives on SIM Registration and Synchronisation with NIN


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. ....

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House Urges Extension of SIM Card Registration, NIN Linkage Deadline


•Subscribers kick against two-week ultimatum for Synchronisation
Emma Okonji, Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos, Sylvester Idowu in Warri and Udora Orizu in Abuja
The House of Representatives yesterday urged the federal government to extend the deadline for the synchronisation of subscribers’ SIM card registration with their National Identification Number (NIN) by telecommunication service providers to 10 weeks.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, had on Tuesday, issued a directive that makes it compulsory for all SIM cards to be linked to National Identity Number (NIN), giving a two-week deadline for compliance.
But the House at the plenary said that NCC should give a reasonable amount of time to enable Nigerians to comply with the instruction. ....

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