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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Communications Commission says network service providers have barred all Subscriber Identification Modules without National Identity Numbers.<\/p>\n

The Commission\u2019s spokesman, Reuben Morka, disclosed this during a Channels Television interview monitored.<\/p>\n

According to him, the subscribers disconnected have not been serious about their NIN-SIM linkage.<\/p>\n

He noted that the primary objective of the policy is to boost security and national planning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be difficult to place a hand on the actual number of phone lines that have been barred. But take it that everybody who has not submitted NIN to service providers has been barred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe service providers started barring subscribers many days before the deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are expecting to do an audit on that before the end of the week because the service providers ought to send in data of the subscribers barred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process is to have an identity attached to a SIM. One of the benefits of SIM registration is to have a digital identity. The Nigerian government is very serious about having NIN as managed by NIMC. The idea is to ensure that we have those together. Some objectives, if you remember, are security and national planning. Also includes Know Your Customer\u2019s details\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Recall that following the expiration of NIN-SIM linkage on February 28, network operators said they had disconnected 40 million subscribers without NIN.<\/p>\n

The mobile network providers said the next phase is to bar subscribers with multiple SIMs without NIN linkage.<\/p>\n

The development comes after several deadline extensions since the policy was kickstarted by the then Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Nigerian Communications Commission says network service providers have barred all Subscriber Identification Modules without National Identity Numbers. The Commission\u2019s spokesman, Reuben Morka, disclosed this during a Channels Television interview monitored. According to him, the subscribers disconnected have not been serious about their NIN-SIM linkage. 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