Officials of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and National Identity Management Commission ( NIMC) have indicated that any subscriber who fails to link his SIM to a NIN number by May 6 2021 will be blocked .
The deadline for the registration, verification, and linkage of the National Identity Number (NIN) to Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) cards was extended to May 6, instead of April 6 2021.
This is even as the already registered and verified NINs have exceeded 51 million.
The development was made known in a joint statement signed by both the Director of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, and Head of Corporate Communications, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Kayode Adegoke at the weekend.
…with Agency reports