The Federal Government under the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy has once again extended the deadline for NIN/SIM linkage.
It has given additional 8 weeks for all subscribers to complete the exercise.
Deadline is now April 6th, 2021.
The information was given to newsmen this morning by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde.
According to him, the extension was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami.
The Minister gave the new deadline during a meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on NIN/SIM registration which held yesterday, 1st of February, 2021.
He said that the new extension is expected to give Nigerians and legal residents more time to integrate their NIN with SIM cards.
Dr Pantami added that a total of 56.18 million NINs have been collected by the telecommunications operators.
According to him, “Each NIN is usually tied to an average of 3 to 4 SIMS and this infers that the current figure accounts for a significant portion of the existing SIMs.
“The figures collected represent a significant increase when compared with the 47.8 million reported by the Technical Committee on January 18, 2021.”
The statement also said that about 1,060 registration centres for NIN have been activated and made operational by NIMC across the country.
In addition, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have opened hundreds of centres and are rapidly deploying resources to open thousands of other NIN enrolment centres across the different states of the country.
The Press statement:
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