By Aiyeku Timothy
The House of Representatives has requested that the Federal Government extend the deadline for the provision of National Identification Number (NIN) by telecommunication service subscribers to 10 weeks.
The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu, had moved a motion of urgent public importance on Wednesday, to demand more time as the House agreed that the two weeks given to SIM card users by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to provide their NIN to service providers is inadequate.
Therefore, the House resolved that the exercise should be allowed to end on January 28, 2021, as against December 30, 2020, earlier stated.
The NCC had threatened that SIM cards not linked to NIN issued by the National Identity Management Commission would be blocked.
