National Identity Numbers

Federal Government has extended the deadline for linking Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM) with valid National Identity Numbers (NIN) by one month. It announced the extension on Friday in a joint statement issued in Abuja by the…

Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, has said there are plans to replace bank verification numbers (BVN) with national identity numbers (NIN). BVN was launched in 2014 by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to…

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has instructed telecommunications operators like MTN, Airtel, Glo and 9Mobile to block all SIM cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers in two weeks. This was disclosed by…