The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS), has launched an innovative identity solution with payment functionality for all types of social and financial services to be powered by AfriG...
•SIM cards Over 40 million lines have been disconnected since the expiration of the February 28 deadline set by the Nigerian Communications Commission for the linkage of NINs to SIMs. However, long queues at the enrolment centres, telco agents not gathering all the information needed from subcribers and server downtime have been the hurdles Ni...
The Nigerian Communications Commission has directed telecommunication companies to extend the disconnection of telephone lines not linked to National Identification Numbers from April 15, 2024, to July 31, 2024. A reliable source within the telecommunication sector disclosed this information to our correspondent yesterday. This decision commun...
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...
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