Thirty-four days after the Federal Government ordered telecom operators to bar Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM) not linked with owners’ National Identity Numbers (NINs) from originating calls, the total number of enrolment into the National Identity...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has introduced a tracking system to improve the process of issuance and collection of passports. Isah Jere Idris, acting comptroller-general, NIS, disclosed this on Saturday at a virtual media...
The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has appealed to Nigerians to think of safety that the liking of their SIM registration to their National Identification Number (NIN) will bring to doing their online businesses rather than...
Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria says intending railway passengers should get their National Identity Number (NIN) ready, as it will be a requirement from May to enhance the profiling of...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Sunday, said that phone numbers not linked to a National Identity Number (NIN) will remain barred from making calls until the affected subscribers obey the directive. A statement by the...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says it has over 15,000 centres in the country, where Nigerians and others can enrol for the National Identification Number (NIN). The commission added that there are over 150 centres...
The Federal Government has ordered telecommunications operators to bar all outgoing calls of all Subscriber Identification Module cards not yet linked with the National Identification Number from today, April 4, 2022. Minister of Communications and Digital...
The director-general of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC)Aliyu Aziz, says the National Identity Number (NIN) should become a mandatory requirement for accessing government services. He said this while requesting the support at a meeting he...
Gbolahan Awonuga, head of operations, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), says that the tokenisation system for verifying subscribers had been very slow, and fraught with challenges. “It’s a slow process. There are some...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says its National Identity Number Verification Service is down due to maintenance being executed by its service provider. Banks and other institutions who need the service for their own...