No fewer than 40 million phone traces had been blocked by telecommunications firms over the weekend following the expiry of the February 28, 2024 deadline issued by the Nigerian Communications Fee, which required telecom customers to hyperlink their Subscriber Id Modules to their Nationwide Id Numbers.
This represents a rise of 28 million from the 12 million phone traces initially set to be deactivated by telecom firms because of the NCC directive.
In a discover dated December 2023, the NCC had requested telecom firms to dam SIM playing cards not linked to their homeowners' NINs by February 28, 2024.
On Thursday, NCC Public Affairs Director Reuben Mouka dominated out an extension of the deadline, warning that telecom firms that did not adjust to the deadline can be sanctioned.
Nevertheless, to keep away from doable disconnection of your cellular quantity(s), PUNCH On-line highlights the step-by-step information on tips on how to hyperlink your cellular numbers to NIN utilizing the NIMC Private Id digital software, as noticed and punctiliously adopted by our correspondent.
- Obtain the NIMC Private Id software from the Google Retailer or Apple Retailer.
- Downloading the appliance gives you entry to linking round 28 cellular numbers together with your NIN.
- Enter your 11-digit NIN to proceed to NIMC's private id web page for the hyperlink.
- If you happen to have no idea your NIN, you will get it by dialing *346# on the cellular quantity you supplied throughout registration, or enter your first title, center title, final title and date of delivery within the data field of the app to go to to seek for the NIN.
- After you proceed to offer the NIN within the field, your quantity might be confirmed.
- If the quantity discovered linked to your NIN is just not well-known, you’ll be able to point out that you simply need to use a distinct quantity within the choices supplied.
- Present the quantity and you’ll instantly obtain a textual content message with a token to proceed.
- If you don’t obtain OTP, dial *364*2*NIN#
- You’ll obtain an SMS together with your username and OTP.
- You then enter the OTP after which you’ll be taken to your id platform the place your consumer ID and NIN data might be displayed with a picture.
- There’s an icon indicating that you may hyperlink your songs, click on on them and add your songs.
- One other OTP might be despatched to the quantity(s) you need to hyperlink, enter it and it is going to be linked.
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