olatade:
They should bare it in mind that covid 19 is on a second wave invasion. This is not the time to jam pac the offices of telecom operators and 2 weeks is to short to synchronise millions of customers.

Y is it that reasonable people like u are not in government

cardoso514:
Even when Pantanmi cannot produce identity card since 2014!

Is that his remit?

IlovePMB:
Always on the wrong time of the year. Useless and insensitive government.



This policy is useless because it would put innocent people into trouble. Criminals would rob you of your phone and use it to make all the calls they need and throw your sim card away after they are done. The police would then arrest you.

Aboki remains Aboki.

I swear. These archaic ab.oki people just keep destroying this country. Always making extremely daft decisions.

IlovePMB:
Always on the wrong time of the year. Useless and insensitive government.



This policy is useless because it would put innocent people into trouble. Criminals would rob you of your phone and use it to make all the calls they need and throw your sim card away after they are done. The police would then arrest you.

Aboki remains Aboki.

we should train a police on the use of gis technology for solving crime.

IlovePMB:
Always on the wrong time of the year. Useless and insensitive government.



This policy is useless because it would put innocent people into trouble. Criminals would rob you of your phone and use it to make all the calls they need and throw your sim card away after they are done. The police would then arrest you.

Aboki remains Aboki.

Remember pantami is from this North east amd this approach will improve security in the North east and its long overdue. How can anonymous people be having access to our GSM network. 10years inprison for selling registered sim loading.

Daddycharger:
Now crowd will be all over telecom company. This government is insensitive

coming from people like you that claim there is no covid 19.

rawfact:


You think so? For me, he seems to be the only performing minister from the North and I think that policy is spot on.

What the use of this mumu policy. Criminals will just steal your profile and use it to register 2000 sims.

post=97104671:
This is how the sane countries we want to emulate as a nation start to build their countries to a sane society they are today.

Inasmuch this is a welcome development, how would this be effective concerning the second wave of covid19?

SAMAJ:
Following the earlier directive on the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators, the Federal government has directed all operators in the country to disconnect every SIM card not synchronized with valid National Identity Number (NIN) by December 30th 2020.


This came after an urgent meeting of key stakeholders in the Communications industry convened by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) on Monday, December 14, 2020.

The meeting in its resolution insisted that all telecom operators must from Thursday, December 16, 2020 require all their subscribers to provide valid National Identification Number (NIN) to update SIM registration records.

https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1338918738662465537?s=19

Stupid policy from stupid government agency as usual biko! SMH. You just want make people dey queue for Telecom offices for Christmas time! 600 years of suffering for una and your families till the 4th generation since una no wan get sense! Useless dolts!

This is the time for Mr. Falana to get an perpetual and indefinite injunction on this potential case if he is still the human rights lawyer, he claims to be.

I rest my case.

Very insensitive. So person go just hold me on ran some then call my people to bring money for release ? These guys dey breath from their yansh.

Murrynmama:


How is his point reasonable? Any move to stop/reduce insecurity in the country is a welcome idea

I understand. Notwithstanding, a balance has to be struck between security and public health. There's a resurgence of Covid19 as we speak and it behooves on the government to ensure things dont get outta hand.

That's the point I'm trying to make.

post=97104671:
This is how the sane countries we want to emulate as a nation start to build their countries to a sane society they are today.

Abeggi! Shutti up there! Fem! Sane societies dey make their citizens suffer for holidays and during Covid19? You must be an unlimited and d0ltic type of st00pid!

Daddycharger:
Now crowd will be all over telecom company. This government is insensitive

Not only an insensitive government but a callous one too! In a second wave of Covid19, you want to increase the number of cases drastically with a stupid policy at a very very wrong time? I wonder how we keep voting this dolts every 4 years, really baffles me!

olatade:
They should bare it in mind that covid 19 is on a second wave invasion. This is not the time to jam pac the offices of telecom operators and 2 weeks is to short to synchronise millions of customers.

Subscribers don't need to besiege their offices, a simple google form kind of document can be generated for customers to fill and submit to the telecomm firms. The notice is too short.

it would be ridiculous for FG to expect us to go to the telcos for the synchronisation.. we provided our numbers during national identity registration.. NIMC should liaise with the telcos for the exercise. between them, it can be done without summoning us!

olatade:
They should bare it in mind that covid 19 is on a second wave invasion. This is not the time to jam pac the offices of telecom operators and 2 weeks is to short to synchronise millions of customers.

Always doing wrong thing at the wrong time , let them try it and see how Nigerians will go and full communication office in this covid1-9 pandemic...

They will never set to do the right thing at the right time

SAMAJ:
Following the earlier directive on the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators, the Federal government has directed all operators in the country to disconnect every SIM card not synchronized with valid National Identity Number (NIN) by December 30th 2020.


This came after an urgent meeting of key stakeholders in the Communications industry convened by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) on Monday, December 14, 2020.

The meeting in its resolution insisted that all telecom operators must from Thursday, December 16, 2020 require all their subscribers to provide valid National Identification Number (NIN) to update SIM registration records.

https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1338918738662465537?s=19

useless government

rusher14:


Explain what exactly is wrong with the idea.

A lot is very wrong, the law asks for an Nigerian ID Card, not NIN, so this is very very wrong. Are you saying that other Nigerian ID Cards are now useless to access government services? This will set a bad precedence and will set the CBN to doing the same thing. Besides, this is highly insensitive and to say the least, callous, during a time of the second wave of Covid19, you tell people to bunch together to fulfill your stupid policy? Reason am na.

rusher14:


In light of insecurity which pervades the Nigerian state, facilitated by unidentified individuals taking advantage of the mobile network and the anonymity the prevailing regime accords them, a most useful solution would be to tie phone lines to a database of identification on a national scale.

The ball is in your court, why do you disagree with the idea?

This is y I disagree with the idea. Vast majority of people do not have NIN. 2 weeks is too small for them to get it

Nugerians in diaspora use their naija sim. 2 weeks is too small for them to get NIN and protect their sim

If i am q kidnapper, i will kidnap people who are rich for ransom, then kidnap any poor person on the street. Hold them for a day. Use their number to make calls for ransom from rich family, then release the poor man and his phone. Police will go arrest poor man. I qm free.

If i need more than a day to communicate with rich person family, i will kidnap another poor man amd repeat the same process.

This policy will not solve crimes

So foreigners can't own SIM in NIGERIA again ?

Good these people need a iron fist..

You can get them through data.

Na wa oo hmmmmmmmmm

Yawa Dey Oo!!!



Philo it's OVER!

edoairways:

Inasmuch this is a welcome development, how would this be effective concerning the second wave of covid19?

There is vaccine for covid19 ,what is 2nd wave or 2nd scam

Social media regulation strategy step 1 about to be accomplished.
Step 2 will be to disconnect sim cards not linked with Bvn ........ Coming soon

So once you enroll for nimc card with your Sim, you r good to go

Any number associated with bvn is already is already registered with NIM. Patami should go and sit down. Olodo forming smart for zombies.
What happens to foreigners??

It's terrible how shallow you guys think, already active SIM cards are tied to biometrics data of the owners. From your submission, that is not enough data for the police to trace until NIN is added.

What is wrong with taking security of your SIM more seriously?

What's the essence of SIM lock?

Nigeria is trying to harmonize all her Biometrics databases, this should not be so hard to understand.

IlovePMB:
Always on the wrong time of the year. Useless and insensitive government.



This policy is useless because it would put innocent people into trouble. Criminals would rob you of your phone and use it to make all the calls they need and throw your sim card away after they are done. The police would then arrest you.

Aboki remains Aboki.

Why does SIM need to be synchronized with NIN when you already registered your face and finger print just to get the SIM and besides is the useless govt saying foreigners can no longer use Nigerian SIMs while working and living here ?

IlovePMB:
Always on the wrong time of the year. Useless and insensitive government.



This policy is useless because it would put innocent people into trouble. Criminals would rob you of your phone and use it to make all the calls they need and throw your sim card away after they are done. The police would then arrest you.

Aboki remains Aboki.

clap for yourself non aboki that thinks he has sense, so if you were robbed of ur phone the next and right thing to do is it not to report to the police, atleast obtain a police report..

FarahAideed:
Why does SIM need to be synchronized with NIN when you already registered your face and finger print just to get the SIM and besides is the useless govt saying foreigners can no longer use Nigerian SIMs while working and living here ?

wahala for indians and lebanese o