The Federal Government through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in a statement signed by Mr Isa Pantami has on Tuesday announced the extension of the deadline for the NIN-SIM linkage and verification by eight weeks, till June 30, 2021.The extension which was disclosed in a jointly signed statement by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), is said to be because of requests by stakeholders...

As the Independent National Electoral Commission had fixed the first quarter of this year for the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.However, speaking at a validation workshop for INEC voter education manual in Lokoja, Kogi State, yesterday, the commission’s spokesman, Festus Okoye, said the electoral body would not “impose or accept the imposition of extraneous registration requirements not in tandem with the constitution and the law.”Ac...

The Federal Government has stated arrangements are ongoing to replace the Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) with the National Identity Numbers (NIN).The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr Isa Pantami, who disclosed this to newsmen shortly after a tour of telecoms operators and NIN licensees in Abuja, said President Muhammadu Buhari has been briefed on the on-going NIN registrations.BVN is a policy of a bank and has not been established by law, NIN is th...