#nin-sim

NIN-SIM Linkage: FG Threatens Enforcement As Deadline Expires

THE Federal Government has said it is ready to enforce the implementation of its National Identification Number–Subscriber Identity Module policy as the deadline for the verification exercise ended. However, it has given telecommunication subscribers a couple of days to ensure that their SIMs are linked to their NINs. Prior to this, the FG had extended the deadline for the SIM-NIN verification…

NIN-SIM linkage: SERAP sues President Buhari

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to review and rescind his reported approval for security agencies to access people’s personal details via NIN-SIM linkage without due process of law.” President Buhari had in February reportedly given his approval for some security agencies to access the database of…

Buhari grants approval to security agencies to access subscribers’ details of NIN-SIM

President Muhammadu Buhari has granted approval to some security agencies to access the database of the National Identity Management Commission of Nigerians in the course of carrying out their duties. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, said his office  through the Nigerian Communications Commission, has conveyed the approval to the relevant  security…

Again, Nigeria extends NIN-SIM verification deadline

The Federal Government has again extended the deadline for the National Identity Number (NIN)-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data verification. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who announced this, urged Nigerians and legal residents to complete the process before the end of the year 2021. The announcement was made in a statement on Saturday jointly signed by the…

Telecoms sector attracts $3.9 billion foreign investments in five years

Telecommunication mast •Unstable macroeconomic environment impacting sector’s potential •NIN-SIM forces 6.3% decline in industry’s growth in Q1 2021 Between 2015 and 2020, Nigeria’s telecommunications sector attracted $3.9 billion foreign investments (portfolio and direct). The 2021 Telecommunications Industry report released by Agusto & Co, which revealed this, observed that this accounted for…

AU claims 300m Africans live 50km away from broadband connections

Broad band connection • Nigeria’s penetration dropped by 2.14% in three months • 42% of countries in region lack IXPs The African Union (AU) has noted that though there has been a huge expansion of fibre optic networks on the continent (which have extended from 278 056 km in 2009 to 1.02 million km in June 2019), nearly 300 million Africans still live more than 50 km from a fibre or cable…