The deadline for the registration, verification, and linkage of the National Identity Number (NIN) to Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) cards has been extended by one month.
It would now end by May 6, instead of April 6, it was originally scheduled to end.
The implication of this is that any subscriber who fails to link his SIM to a NIN number after the new date would have it blocked, according to officials of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and National Identity Management Commission ( NIMC).
This is even as the already registered and verified NINs have exceeded 51 million.
These developments were made known on Friday in a joint statement signed by both the Director of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, and Head of Corporate Communications, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Kayode Adegoke.
The statement said that based on the updates of the NIN registration process, over 51 million people have been assigned NINs.
According to it, there are many people who have enrolled and are in the process of being assigned NINs.
