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The National Association of Telecoms Subscribers (NATCOMS) has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to extend the deadline for blocking unlinked subscribers to the national identification number (NIN) until March 31, 2024.…

The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Abisoye Coker-Odusote, has emphasised the indispensable role of accurate data in advancing President Bola Tinubu's eight-point agenda. Coker-Odusote, who made…

The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Abisoye Odusote-Coker, has approved the deployment of extra enrolment systems to every state in the federation to alleviate challenges in National Identification…

Opay, a Nigerian fintech company during an interactive session with the media, announced that customers who are non-compliant with the Know Your Customer (KYC) directive of NIN-BVN linkage of tier-1 accounts will be inactivated from…

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has released updated guidelines regarding the modification of date of birth, stipulating that such changes are permissible only once in a lifetime. Importantly, the commission emphasizes…

The telecommunication industry in Nigeria is beginning to shake off the effect of the National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module policy as it recovers 16.94 million active subscribers within 11 months, according…

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), disclosed that its National Identification Number (NIN) Verification Service (NVS) portal, which went down a few days ago due to maintenance by one of the commission’s network service…

The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, says the ministry will continue to advocate the full integration and implementation of the National Identification Number NIN, as a guarantee for the protection…

The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed all government data and biometrics collection agencies to harmonise their data collection before the end of his second tenure in 2023. The President stated this on Thursday at the…

The Nigerian Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to July 26, 2021. The earlier deadline would have lapsed tomorrow, June 30. The deadline date has now been shifted for about seven times.…