Nigerian Telcos have deactivated about 10.7 million SIM cards and this has led to affected customers picketing telcos’ customer centers across the country, Guardian reports.

The SIM cards were barred after the Nigerian Communications Commission, the Nigerian telecoms industry regulator, gave carriers a seven-day ultimatum to deactivate pre-registered SIM cards and those with poor biometric capturing from their networks.

The report by Guardian reveals that a number of aggrieved customers interviewed indicated that they were duly registered and were surprised when they discovered their SIM cards had been barred.

Thisday Live reported that the NCC had given this directive as a fall out of its meeting with the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Department of State Security (DSS), the network operators. The parties present at the meeting had pointed attention to crimes committed in the country via unregistered telephone lines across various networks.

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The innocent population suffers for what may not have been their faults. This NCC will urgently force telcos companies to implement but when we are extorted on daily basis they look the other way.

Yeah bro. I faced the same problem too. In my own case, i registered the sim card in an etisalat shop the first time i bought it o. But now they blocked me! It's annoying. And it's also part of change

nnachukz:
The innocent population suffers for what may not have been their faults. This NCC will urgently force telcos companies to implement but when we are extorted on daily basis they look the other way.

Frankly, a friend of mine Etisalat line was blocked. The painful thing was that, it was blocked a minute after he recharged the sim.

I recharged my sim card from my GTBank Account using the *737*Amount# code and i activated 2GB plan for N2000 before they blocked mine too. mtsww this etisalat sha!

Vikkie14:
Frankly, a friend of mine Etisalat line was blocked. The painful thing was that, it was blocked a minute after he recharged the sim.

Those that bought sim cards because of cheats...hahahahahahaha.

web4everyone1:
Yeah bro. I faced the same problem too. In my own case, i registered the sim card in an etisalat shop the first time i bought it o. But now they blocked me! It's annoying. And it's also part of change

my dear my etisalat is also deactivated including my Glo.

This thing tire me! Out of my four sims one has been giving me problems of late. I suspect this rubbish is the cause. I've called up customer care but they've been acting like I'm wasting their time and're quick to dismiss me everytime. May God save Nigerians from these daylight robbers.

Ameen oo.

charix:
This thing tire me! Out of my four sims one has been giving me problems of late. I suspect this rubbish is the cause. I've called up customer care but they've been acting like I'm wasting their time and're quick to dismiss me everytime. May God save Nigerians from these daylight robbers.

i hope this post hits the front page because i know many people faced this problem. Make them yarnnn

Ok

dey shd not just try to deactivate my line

Etisalat appears to be the worst hit.