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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says a total of 95.7 million SIM cards being used by subscribers were not properly registered.

Speaking on Tuesday at a regional sensitisation workshop that held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, NCC officials said the agency will send the owners of the SIM cards back to registration centres for recapturing.

According to Sunday Dare, NCC’s executive commissioner for stakeholder management, who was represented by Efosa Idehen, director for compliance monitoring and enforcement, perpetrators of fraudulently registered SIM cards will be charged with felony and risk a 25-year jail term.

Of the total 151.4 million subscribers registered, only 55.7 million are valid.“A total of 151,449,837 registration data of subscribers have been processed, with only 55,749,652 records valid, making 63.2 per cent of the total records invalid based on invalid face capturing and fingerprints”, thereby underscoring the importance of proper SIM registration,” Idehen said.

The NCC director said the agency has put various sanctions in place to deal with the menace of pre-registered SIMs.

He said sanctions will extend to the head of marketing of mobile network operators and even the chief executives of licensees who illegally benefit from such illegal SIM registration activities to meet their marketing targets,“The NCC will begin to plead national security and national interests against anybody found culpable of fraudulently-registered SIM cards in the telecom industry,” he said.

Source: https://soundaza.com/95-7-million-subscribers-invalid/

See me see wahala.

Dey are madt... Dey shld not even attempt to or make attempted attempt to ask Nigerians to go thru dat hell again.. Whose fault is it dat d registration isn't valid

25year jail time??

y

So we'll serve 25yrs jail term for something that isn't our fault
Yet top politicians are free to walk
Oga NCC you're mad sir

Nigeria my country

Ok

Yahoo lawon ore mi

Lol,,,,,

NCC, we have noticed you and confirmed that you are working

Next pls

We will not take it

I hope they are not insinuating we should re-register

Okay, 95 million Nigerians in prison that's okay

Nawa o

Una dey mad for that jail term , what about those idiot politicians draining us like cow milk, how many jail term?

NCC should somewhere to sit down

Subtract one from that figure because i just broke a glo Sim. Good giveaways be like food wey person dey eat for dream.

Lazy fool

suremoney16:
sure

This country looks like shit and everything just keeps going downnnnnnn

haaaaaaaaa:
Go to your church /mosque to seek help

I knw av gat beta Nigerians here on nairaland

Nigerians should come together let’s burn this geographical mistake called Nigeria to the ground!

id911:
Nigerians with SIM cards not properly registered will be charged with felony and risk a 25-year jail term while Treasury looters like Tinubu and Ameachi are eating at the same dinning table with the President. Smh

The second name for Nigeria is fraud like her fraud Constitution

Nigeria is indeed a shithole!

E nor go beta for den if they dare send me sms to com do anoda sim registration again.I knw how many times i do MTN own.

Am just trying to imaging how 90 some thing million Nigerians will be in prison for 25years


Is it not obvious that from the presidency to the list of all the offices in this country are all being Stupid?