The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government declared on Tuesday morning.
Naijblaze.Com gathers that the new deadline date now April 6, 2021.
Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, revealed the extension sent by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.
Pantami sent the message while the meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on NIN-SIM registration which took place on the 1st of February, 2021.
On December 15, 2020, the Federal Government declared that after December 30, 2020, all SIMs that were not registered with valid NINs on the network of telecommunications companies would be blocked.
It later extended the December 30, 2020 deadline following widespread opposition against the earlier announcement and gave three weeks’ extension for subscribers with NIN from December 30, 2020, to January 19, 2021.
It also gave six weeks’ extension for subscribers without NIN from December 30, 2020, to February 9, 2021, but many organisations called for an additional deadline extension or outright suspension of the NIN registration process.
