FG insists on deadline for National Identification Number NIN registration
The Federal government has insisted that the deadlines given for the registration of all Subscriber Identification Modules with valid National Identity Numbers were still in force.
Recall that in December 2020, the Federal government issued a directive to all mobile network providers to block telephone lines that are not linked with a valid NIN number. This has seen many Nigerians thronging the various NIN registration centers to get their numbers.
Following the widespread opposition to the initial deadline for synchronization, the Federal government gave a three-week extension for subscribers with NIN to link their sim cards from December 30, 2020, to January 19, 2021. It also gave a six-week extension for subscribers without NIN from December 30, 2020, to February 9, 2021
As the nation experiences the second wave of the COVID19, there have been calls for the deadline for the synchronization of NINS and Sim cards to be extended or better still be suspended.
However, in a chat with Punch, the Director, Public Affairs, of the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC, Ikechukwu Adinde, said the deadline was still in force.
“The deadlines are still in force; there is no update for now, and just like I told you last week, if there is any change, it will be communicated”he said
They are not ready to stop this registration with this crowd but they want to stop students from going to their schools, wicked people.
We will see what will happen next when the day expired. They just like to frustrate the citizens.
How would COVID-19 would not spread if it’s real and they are not giving us false figure about it.
I think the federal government are just deceiving us, they should give us more time and allow us to do it with respect to the COVID-19 protocol.
they are just finding ways of frosrating the masses….
Nigerian with there extension extension. If the they come again you will hear another extension.