The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has unveiled a mobile application for Nigerians to modify their data on the National Identification Number (NIN). With this new app, Nigerians can now make corrections to their name, date of birth, phone numbers on their NIN profile, reports Sunday Vanguard. Before now, Nigerians who wanted to...
A former Managing Director of defunct Daily Times Newspaper, High Chief Tola Adeniyi, has urged the federal government to immediately stop what he described as Patami’s inimical and insidious security breach which mandated citizens to link their NIN and BVN with their telephone numbers. In a statement made available yesterday, the Jagun Oodua ...
Nigerian creators can now monetise their content starting from June 2024, according to Meta. Meta, the parent company of social media platforms Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, said this yesterday. Meta’s President of Global Affairs Sir Nick Clegg spoke about this when he led a delegation of Meta Platforms Incorporated to visit President Bol...
The National Commissioner, Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), Dr Vincent Olatunji, has ordered a full-scale investigation in respect of allegations of unauthorised access to the personal data of enrollees in the database of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). A statement signed by Head of Legal, Enforcement and Regulati...
•Marine cable As good as technology is, the lack of it can turn the world upside down. LUCAS AJANAKU writes on the undersea cable cut, which has paralysed internet services across parts of Africa, reports The Nation. As of December 2022, according to statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), total fibre optics deployment ac...
•Subsea cables Damage to at least three subsea cables off the West Coast of Africa yesterday disrupted internet services in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries across the continent. Telecommunications subscribers and bank users, as well as your soar away online newspaper The Frontier, were stranded for hours as the disruption paralysed digital ...
A Lagos-based activist and lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has dragged telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria as well as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to a Lagos Federal High Court, challenging the recent barring of phone lines of citizens. Ogungbeje joined Dr. Aminu Maida, the Chief Executive Officer of NCC, and MTN Ni...
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, said yesterday that SIM cards previously linked to the National Identification Numbers, NIN, were barred because they were bad. It also explained that the job of using NIN to track kidnappers currently terrorising the country is that of the police. NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, who explained on Chann...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), today, explained why some telecommunications subscribers who previously linked their SIM cards to their National Identification Numbers (NINs) have their mobile lines barred. NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, said “people who probably didn’t get a cleared or verified NIN” have been barred because “the e...
•Oloyede The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has called for ruthless sanctions against social media abusers to serve as deterrent. Oloyede also submitted that Nigeria does not need a new law to tackle social media abuse as there are relevant laws to address the challenges, reports Daily Tru...
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