Feb 19 deadline for subscribers without NIN – Pantami.
Minister for Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami has urged telecom subscribers to ensure they link their National Identity Numbers (NINs) with their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) on or before February 19.
Pantami who said this in response to a tweet from a parody account of the NIMC, urged Nigerians to beware of fraudsters.
“This is not the official handle of the Nationa Identity Management commission (NIMC). The official handle is @nimc_ng. Beware of fraudsters, pls.
Furthermore, the deadline for those without NIN is not today, but 9th of February as announced by the NCC. The process continues pls,” he tweeted from his official handle.
This follows the expiration of the January 19 deadline given subscribers with National Identity Numbers (NINs) to sync their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM).
Checkout Magazine learnt that only 47.8 million SIMs were successfully linked.
Recall that Dr Pantami, had earlier given subscribers and the mobile network operators (MNOs) between December 16 and 30, 2020 to link SIMs with NINs. He had threatened to deactivate all SIMs that failed to meet the deadline.
The deadline was extended from December 30 to January 19, 2021 for subscribers with NINs and February 19, 2021 for subscribers without NINs.
