It was announced that the Federal Government deadline for Citizens to link their National Identity Numbers to their SIM cards expires today.

Over 29 million sim cards have not been linked.

During an Interview with DailyTrust, A Federal Government official stated that over 176m SIM has been linked to their owner NIN.

Nigerians who took to social media warned of the consequences of disconnecting millions of Nigerians from using their sim cards.

The government had given January 19 and February 9 deadlines for subscribers already with NINs and those without NINs respectively to link their SIMs with their unique identity numbers.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim Pantami’s spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, did not respond to Daily Trust’s enquiry seeking to know what would be the fate of those who failed to do the linkage before the deadline.

The Nigerian Communications Commission had said there would not be mass disconnection of telecom subscribers as a result of the ongoing linkage of NIN records to SIM Registration.

“A recent survey conducted in Nigeria has shown that on average, there are now approximately 4 to 5 SIMs to every human subscriber.


“This explains the basis of allowing the linkage of up to 7 SIMs to 1 unique NIN in the recently launched Federal Government Portal”, NCC had said in a recent statement.

While reacting to the expiration date, many Nigerians have dared the federal government to go ahead with SIM deactivation while many others lamented their inability to complete the process.

According to @ChibuikeChined4: “You cannot, and should not force the citizens who made the choice to buy phone and SIM network to register for what you couldn’t make easy and accessible to all Nigerians. This is indeed end time saga.”

“Is this how to address the citizens of the country.. I no blame una sha,” @OLUBUKOLA said.

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