The Federal Government has extended the ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise by eight weeks.
This was made known on Tuesday by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, who stated that the new deadline was now April 6, 2021.
Adinde stated that the extension was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.
Pantami conveyed the message during the meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on NIN-SIM registration which held on the 1st of February, 2021.
Recall that Nigerians have been undergoing an exercise to link their national identity card to their Subscriber Identity Module since December 2020 and the federal government have extended the exercise on several occasions to enable all Nigerians to get involved in the process.
