The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has revealed that the the National Identification Number (NIN) portal is down.
Reports in the last 5 days say that millions of Nigerians have been unable to retrieve their lost Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards or get new lines.
The NIMC verification portal allows telecom operators to verify and link the National Identification Number (NIN) of their customers to their SIMs following a Federal Government Directive.
The portal also allows the Nigerian Immigration Service, financial institutions and other government agencies to verify the NIN of their customers before attending to them.
The telcos are required to synchronise their SIM registration portals with the NIMC portal in order to verify the details of their subscribers but have not been able to due to a technical glitch in the commission’s server.
Reacting to the development, NIMC said in a statement that the reason the system is down on the verification portal is due to maintenance being executed by its service providers.
NIMC, in the statement titled ‘NIMC NIN verification service temporarily unavailable”, added that verification and authentication services would be restored once the maintenance is concluded.
The commission advised Nigerians to make use of the alternative tokenisation verification platform pending the conclusion of the maintenance ongoing.
It, therefore, apologised for any inconveniences this might cause Nigerians who needed to use the portal.
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