Just In: FG extends NIN-SIM linkage by eight weeks

The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday morning. It said the new deadline was now April 6, 2021.

Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, said the extension was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.

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Pantami conveyed the message during the meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on NIN-SIM registration which held on Monday, February 1, 2021.