{"id":173417,"date":"2022-04-07T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=173417"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:20:04","slug":"weve-15000-nin-enrolment-centres-nimc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/07\/weve-15000-nin-enrolment-centres-nimc\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve 15,000 NIN enrolment centres \u2014 NIMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, said, yesterday, it has over 15,000 National Identification Number, NIN, enrolment centres in the country.<\/p>\n<p>NIMC disclosed this following the Federal Government\u2019s directive to all the telecommunication companies to restrict unlinked subscriber identity module card, SIMs, from making calls.<\/p>\n<p>Unlinked lines are SIM cards not yet linked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/05\/nin-we-will-comply-with-fgs-order-to-bar-unlinked-sims-from-making-calls-telcos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIN<\/a>\u00a0and about 119 million lines run the risk of being deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>Available statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in February showed that there are 303,636,267 connected GSM mobile lines in the country, of which 197,768,482 were active.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, of the 197.7 million active subscribers, 78 million had so far been linked. A simple mathematics will show that about 119 million subscribers are yet to link.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government had on Monday directed all telcos to restrict unlinked SIMs from making calls as the deadline for NIN-SIM linkage ended on March 31 after postponing it many times.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the Federal Government on Thursday directed Nigerians to ensure they completed the verification and linkage of their NINs to their SIMs within days.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a lot of Nigerians who are yet to comply with the directive and had been barred from making calls are lamenting.<\/p>\n<p>A youth corps member, Elizabeth Ushie, told Vanguard that she has not been able to make calls with her Airtel line since Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI will go and link the line before the end of the week because some people know me with that line. However, it\u2019s not my major line.<\/p>\n<p>Another subscriber who identified herself as Esther said: \u201cI have not been able to make calls with my Airtel since morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others have also taken to their social media to express their displeasure over the barring of their communication lines by telecommunication network providers in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>One Chidozie Uchenna, says on twitter, \u201cPlease my SIM has been blocked and I can\u2019t make calls for now.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, ALTON, had promised total compliance to the Federal Government\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>This was according to a statement released by the association recently and signed by the Chairman and Head of Operations, Gbenga Adebayo and Mr. Gbolahan Awonuga respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, said, yesterday, it has over 15,000 National Identification Number, NIN, enrolment centres in the country. 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