NIN

Around this time last year (2021), reports emerged that the FG plans to introduce a digital token to replace the 11-digit NIN number, and now the federal government has plans to implement it beginning January 2023. The federal…

MTN and Airtel Nigeria have reported that 9.7 million of their subscribers are still barred from making outgoing calls despite submitting their National Identification Numbers for verification. The telcos, disclosed in their recent…

The House of Representatives has asked the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to redesign the national identity card in a way that the National Identity Number (NIN), of the bearer is written on it. This call was made after…

SIM replacement in Nigeria is now tedious than before. SIM card owners without NIN will not be able to replace their SIM card if misplaced. New Rules for SIM Replacement 1: NIN is now mandatory for all SIM replacement. The commission said…

Nigerians has been urged by the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) to consider the benefit of linking their Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards to their National Identification Number (NIN) for the safety of their online…

Based the directive given by the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) to block certain lines. According to ALTON, subscribers affected are those yet to link their…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commended her citizens for complying with the NIN-SIM linkage, while also directing telecommunications companies to bar outgoing calls on unlinked lines from April 4, 2022. This was disclosed in a…

The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami has urged citizens and legal residents to use the next few days to ensure that they complete the linkage of their SIM and NIN, as enforcement is about to take…

The FG has yet again extended NIN linkage to SIM for the ninth time, and those who have succeeded in getting their NIN slip might want to the next step further. The good news is that you can now print out the improved NIN slip in plastic…

The Nigerian Government has introduced a suite of digital Tokens to replace the aging NIN slip and polycarbonate card. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami said this at stakeholders workshop on the National…

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has disclosed that it has exceeded the 60 million mark in the ongoing unique NIN enrolment exercise for the National Identity Database (NIDB). The Commission announced this in a…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the extension of the deadline for National Identification Number (NIN) and SIM data verification to July 26. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, on behalf of the…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced the deadline extension of the National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise in a…

The National Identity Number, NIN-Sim linkage has been extended by one month by the Federal Government. The Government also disclosed that National Identity Number database has exceeded 51 million records. This was contained in a…

President Muhammadu Buhari led administration has announced the approval of SIM swap centers by Mobile Network Operators, MNOs, across all local government areas. The new development was confirmed at a meeting of the ministerial Task…

The Federal Government has stated that the National Identity Number (NIN) is now mandatory for transactions such as the opening of bank accounts, payment of taxes, voter registration. This was made known on Thursday in Abuja by the…

The Federal Government on Tuesday morning disclosed that it has extended the ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise by eight weeks. The deadline has now been shifted to April 6,…

Following the authorization by the Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to telecom operators for NIN enrollment, Globacom Nigeria has commenced NIN registration in its various retail outlets across the country. The mobile operator…

MTN Nigeria, just like other mobile operators, has commenced the National Identity Number (NIN) registration exercise in its retail outlets across the country. According to MTN, it had secured the Nigerian Identity Management Commission…

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says telecommunications companies have been licensed to register people for their National Identity Numbers (NINs). Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, Director-General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, said…