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The Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria says preparations are being finalised for network operators to become enrolment agents for the National Identity Management Commission .

ALTON Chairman, Gbenga Adebayo, who is a member of the National Task Force on National Identification Number and SIM Registration, said the opening of more enrolment centres would make it easier for Nigerians to and obtain their NIN for onward linkage to their SIM cards .
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Communication Commission had last week ordered telecommunications companies to deactivate telephone lines of subscribers who failed to link their phones to their NIN within two weeks.

Thousands of Nigerians had trooped to the NIMC offices all over the country on Monday for their NIN registration , thereby flouting the Covid -19 protocol put in place by the government . The development forced the NIMC to shut down its offices in most parts of the country on Monday .
The government later bowed to pressure by extending the deadline to January 19 , 2021 , for subscribers with NIN and February 9 for those without NIN .

But speaking on Tuesday , the ALTON chairman blamed the large crowds at the NIMC offices nationwide on the last -minute attitude of most Nigerians .

He said , “ Before now, it has been apathy on the part of citizens to visit the enrolment centre of NIMC. I must say that until the time when NIN became a condition for Bank Verification Number, the number of uptake on NIN enrolment was quite low. And it all boils down to our attitude of low response or poor response as a people in general.

“ NIMC has been on it for eight years but people have failed to visit those centres to enroll . Until there is a significant mandate that people need to do it before certain things happen , you don ’ t see people visiting those centres.”

Adebayo , who spoke while featuring on Arise TV’ s The Morning Show monitored by The PUNCH, said the task force has agreed that network operators would become enrolment centres for the NIN registration to decongest the crowds at NIMC offices nationwide .


He said , “ NIMC has done it alone in the last eight years but it has now opened more centres of enrolment in the last few weeks. There are many centres that are being opened up including the network operators which will now be enrolment agents for the NIMC . That will make access better and make enrolment easier for people. ”

Adebayo further stated that the present NIN linkage to SIM cards is an opportunity for Nigerians to have a national database.

“ We must take responsibility as a people. We all complain that we don ’t have a national database. We must take advantage of this opportunity and ensure that we create a national database once and for all, ” he said .

“ On the issue of data privacy, we are working according to the provision of the National Information Technology Development Agency on the data protection and privacy,” the ALTON chairman added.

As of October , the total number of mobile network connections was 207. 58 million , but currently , only 43 million Nigerians have NIN , thus 164 million telephone s are at the risk of being deactivated on January 19, 2021.

source: https://punchng.com/nin-network-operators-to-be-enrolment-agents-for-nimc-says-alton/

Whatever makes the process less cumbersome is welcomed.

Ok

Blaming Nigerians for your incompetence.

Mad people doing mad things

So South Africans and indians will decide who get NIGERIAn identity?

They should be more customer friendly then

necessarily a good idea

Good move.....

Is it only one number that one can link to his NIN or one can link multiple numbers?

doggedfighter:
Blaming Nigerians for your incompetence.

This is the best strategy.

It is well

So many things on one's hand

Is it not what they supposed to have thought of from the beginning? Even using banks databases in alignment with bvn? I don't know why simple thing in this country are always made complex by the leaders. Many indigenous tech companies are even willing to help them but they prefer suffering people and stressing us so that everythingwwill mess up and they can cash out from the program easily.
They were saying they didn't expect the kind of visitors to their website yesterday before it crashes. Can you imagine? Now they will use that one to embezzle moni again.
Why simple thing is always complex, I repeat? Oh, sorry, they are senseless and don't know anything about what they represent. Shio.

leaders be thinking up-side-down...International port, drivers licence,bank s,simcards,all with biometrics.corona virus waving the second time and linking NIN is priority.
Nass still thinking about Xmas largesse so if una like make una catch corona all in the name of linking NIN.
not like it will ameliorate the security situation in the country cos our brothers somewhere will still NIN for their cows and exempt bandits from the exercise.
I'm so sorry for finding my self in this country or even remaining here.

FarahAideed:
So South Africans and indians will decide who get NIGERIAn identity?

A sensitive data as that?! What a country!

parkervero:
Is it only one number that one can link to his NIN or one can link multiple numbers?

I believe you can link multiple numbers to a song NIN.

priceaction:
Is it not what they supposed to have thought of from the beginning? Even using banks databases in alignment with bvn? I don't know why simple thing in this country are always made complex by the leader

Typically, you can't know all the ins and outs of a project until you commence. Rather, each stage of the project will most likely spring up surprises and challenges.
What makes a good project manager/coordinator isn't really how well he's able to forsee obstacles, it's how he's able to find his way around them.

Still, FG has no right to block anybody's sim Card. Stop the mumu threats.

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How many number or.lines can be linked to the NIN ?

Outsourcing is the way in Nigeria. Little wonder rumours have it that even the president has been outsourced from Sudan!
Shame!

They talk before they think

parkervero:
Is it only one number that one can link to his NIN or one can link multiple numbers?

someone should answers this

During the last eight years I have visited the NIN enrolment center more than five times without success.Meanwhile the NIN director are busy ing Boko Haram boys...

There never been a month that one wouldn't face an artificial ordeal in this so called Nigeria.
Hope you sha no block my hotline.

The whole NIN is fraud. Buhari's government using it to generate money at the expense of Nigerians