Telecom companies liense to register for NIN

By Oluchi Ihediuche

Telecommunications companies and private individuals can now register people who do not have National Identity Numbers.

This is to reduce the large crowds at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the government agency said

NIMC Director-General Aliyu Aziz confirmed this through a telephone conversation with newsmen. He said some other private and public organisations had also been licensed by the commission to avoid overcrowding at the commission’s offices.

“We have licensed private and public sector organisations including telcos (telecommunications companies) so as to create more centres,”

Aziz’s diclosure came after Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, constituted a committee to address the demands of NIMC employees.

Pantami in January argued that linking sim cards to NIN was designed to be a smooth process which turned rowdy because people chose not to comply to government’s directive.