Telecommunications companies have been licensed to register people who do not have National Identity Numbers so as to reduce the large crowds at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission , the NIMC has said .
Director - General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, said some other private and public organisations had also been licensed by the commission to provide NINs in order to address the crowds at commission’ s offices .
This came as workers of the commission told our correspondent on Tuesday that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy , Isa Pantami , had constituted a committee to address the demands of NIMC employees.

NIMC workers had downed tools on January 7, 2021 in protest against the poor welfare issues at the commission, but their strike was suspended after the intervention of the minister.
Responding to an enquiry as regards measures taken by NIMC with respect to complains by citizens and the crowds at the commission’ s offices, Aziz said mobile network operators had been empowered to also give the identity numbers .

“ We have licensed private and public sector organisations including telcos ( telecommunications companies) so as to create more centres, ” he stated in a WhatsApp message to our correspondent.

On December 15, 2020, the Federal Government declared that after December 30, 2020 , all SIMs that were not registered with valid NINs on the network of telecommunications companies would be blocked .

It later extended the December 30, 2020 deadline following widespread opposition against the earlier announcement and gave three weeks’ extension for subscribers with NIN from December 30, 2020 to January 19, 2021 .

It also gave six weeks’ extension for subscribers without NIN from December 30 , 2020 to February 9, 2021, but many organisations had called for further deadline extension or outright suspension of the NIN registration process due to the large crowds who had yet to have their NINs .

On the meeting between NIMC workers and the communication minister, the President, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC Unit, Asekokhai Lucky, said some resolutions were reached.

He said the minister told the union that some of the demands being presented by the workers were new to him, as he only took over the supervisory role of NIMC in October 2020.

“So what he (Pantami) did was to set up a seven-man committee to work on the issues and submit a report to him in two weeks’ time,” Lucky stated.

Lucky said the 21-day ultimatum earlier issued the management of NIMC was still in force, although there had been calls for the union to step down the ultimatum.

Telecommunications companies have been licensed to register people who do not have National Identity Numbers so as to reduce the large crowds at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission , the NIMC has said .

We will remain subtle in our posts henceforth,
following some conference calls all of us @[b][/b] received from some elders (Mostly females, Grandmas et al) and other sane members of the forum last night.
Our points have been passed across on this forum.
We dished out to them just for 2 weeks what they have been dishing out to us for over 3 years on this forum, and some people are mad and angry, as if it is only some sets of people that have monopoly to madness!
Well, we will go back to our more civil ways and continue to ignore trolls and (gosh, we don't wanna call names anymore....... atleast for now!)
We will continue to respect the rules and regulations of this great forum and continue to pray for our darling country as much as we can.
We will continue to call out the government on the negative things that are not going well in the country as we have always been doing (but some willfully blind people have chosen not to see) and we will continue to commend our darling Daddy and his amiable Vice President for the good works they are doing all around the nation in every region.

We have made it known to the little set of confused fans that dem MANNA can never be silence, bullied, provoked, threatened or trolled, and it is good they have seen they did that for almost 4 years now, but they keep going down one after the other while we remain standing gidigba on the Rock of Ages!
Only a wise man quits the battle he knows he can never win.
We will ignore you as we have been doing for many years prior now,
But if you quote us while ignoring you to say jargons and using words not allowed on this forum,
Then we will happily follow the rules and regulations of the forum instead of addressing you as swines that N Cownu addressed you as, even as his followers!
More because we are all raised by different parents and also because of foreigners coming to this forum to learn about out darling nation.
We will rather school and correct you with love as kid brothers that you are .
D anointing wey all of us @[/b] carry no be una mate... [b]CHUKWUKADIBIA!
Y'all heard?!
For all sane, honest, good, positive and hardworking Nigerians, please, be like dem MANNA.
A better Nigeria is all we want.
A better Nigeria we sshall get.
Slow and steady we will get to the Nigeria of our dreams
God bless Nigeria.

PussyKing:
Receive sense this morning

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