The Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde has disclosed that the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identification Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks.
According to him, the Federal Government’s decision to shift the new deadline to April 6, 2021 was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.
Pantami conveyed the message during the meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on NIN-SIM registration which held on the 1st of February, 2021.
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The Federal Government declared on December 18, 2020 that after December 30, 2020, all SIMs that were not registered with valid NINs on the network of telecommunications companies would be blocked. The December 30, 2020 deadline was later extended, following widespread opposition against the earlier announcement and the FG gave three weeks’ extension for subscribers with NIN from December 30 to January 19, 2021.
For the subscribers without NIN, the Federal Government also gave six weeks’ extension from December 30, 2020 to February 9, 2021, but many organizations had called for further deadline extension or outright suspension of the NIN registration process.
