One of the latest policies is to add (or harmonise) National Identity Number to our SIM card registrations. First, they gave an unrealistic deadline but extended it to March 2021.

While this is good to curb insecurity and/or check crime and other things, the exercise is already raising more questions than answers are provided, which are:

1. What happens to Mr Ade Nwosu Hassan whose full name reflected on his NIN but whose SIM card was registered with Ade Nwosu? My neighbor is in this group of persons. He went to his network provider and he was asked to go back to NIMC to remove any name that is not in his SIM registration.

Shouldn't it it be a case where since there is no error or incomplete name of the subscriber from NIN, the network providers, who seem to be clueless as to what to do, add the full name of the subscriber to his registration (an update), since his biometrics and picture can be verified?

2. SIM cards registered in Company lines. My friend has a business where they use CUG lines so as to make cheap calls and other benefits that comes with it. He has over 30 staff and each CUG line is registered to his company and not the staff. What happens since Companies don't have NIN, let alone several NIN to register all the lines registered to it? Will those lines go dormant?

3. What happens to those whose NIN registrations has one error or another? For Example, I know someone whose name is "Adejoh Yusuf" but was mispelt as "Adejh Yusuf" You know that his NIN can't be verified as there would be discrepancies.

As at today, the Telecom companies have no clear cut information as to how to resolve some issues related to linking NIN to SIM cards yet. They keep redirecting people to NIMC, even when there may be no need. Remember that NIMC and other authorised bodies would be under immense pressure this period. And the newly created NIMC app my not resolve some issues like error correction etc. I even know someone whose NIN number on his NIN slip doesn't work but when he dials a code to get it from NIMC, another (correct) code pops up.

Thank goodness an app was launched by FG but some issues need one to be physically present at NIMC to resolve.

What is your challenge so far?

Good questions. What happens when the CUG line of a company is passed to a new staff ?

More questions arising o.

The name used to register my Sim is slightly different from the one I used for my NIN.
What the solution to that?

What about my friend who bought a pre-registered Sim?

Nigeria govt keep churning out stupid policies.

Now that I'm not in the country ... so they will block my sim now abi ?

Fuvk nin

have you registered for NIN or you get coconut head like me? ..

meanwhile how about person like me that like giving fake details when registering sim, my name for sim card no tally atall with my real name, what is my fate na?

we have mentally lazy leaders

that's the conclusion of the matter

Truly there are still several issues that needed to be resolved. Also imagine someone operating a tracking firm, especially to companies with several locomotives. Though, a good initiative at least to know who is who. It would be better if voter's card is also linked.

What if I have not register my sim but when I checked by dialing the code given, NIN number popped out....can I use that one?

Another DUMB ASS policy by this administration. How does this benefit anyone? Imagine the hours people have WASTED. Queueing for NIN. Who advises these idiots for goodness sake?

If you ask them they'll say it's for "security". What have they done about the actual security challenges - kidnapping, banditry, Bobo haram, Nigerian Police and others?

It's sad that another new year only shows us how incompetent this president and his goons are. We're still waiting for ONE (ONE!) single policy which benefits Nigerians.

..if only it would stop crime. but the truth is it would never solved anything. it's only an excuse why this government and it security chief are failing. after this they will come up with other things lik operation hold your ID card.

its leading to no where. we all remembered how we were told to register our sim that it's the butter that will enter slide bread. after the compusery registration of sim still nothing has happened. we are still here dragging the issue. the data in sim registration is similar of that in nin. it's an excuse why the government is falling in security. the security Chief should be sacked as simple as that.

Also add people that their sim were registered by their deceased parents or other relative, and have used the said sim for all registration including bvn, bank accounts, etc. This government never think things through, everything dem go rush put. Analogue government in a digital age

you seem to know so many people

Whichever discrepancy this thing is just needed to curb insecurity.
A lady here just lost all the money in her account after her phone was stolen, and a sim was used to buy card with the money.

The rate of cyber fraud in our days is alarming, and a step like this is needed asap.

I was waiting to see Pastor Chris people but alas this one is more comprehensible but truth be told, Nigeria is the center of confusion as far as I’m concerned. Incompetency everywhere.

That's the problem with Nigeria. Someone will just wake up one day and bring one shitty policy without thinking about the pro and cons.

We understand this is about security, but we can still be using sense.

A lot of glitch in this process or policy, hope they can go back to the board and find better solution for each problem that will be encountered in the process of linking the NIN.

Oga oooooThese NIN sef

Do Americans link their social security numbers to SIM cards?

Do Brits have to link their NI numbers to SIM cards?

Yet,

Nigerian government mandates it's citizens to link their NINs to SIM cards.

A democratic nation.. truly one of its kind.. hmm
Interesting.

Tired of Nigeria half boiled system

na dem sabi

Just do your registration and stop asking questions.