NIN: NIMC Tells Unregistered Nigerians To Prepare For Consequences

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Tuesday said Nigerians who have not registered and obtained their National Identity Numbers (NIN) should be ready to face the consequences.

The commission made this know via its official Twitter page after the telecommunication operators said they have submitted about 43 millions NINs to the NIMC for verification following the Federal Government directives.

The operators' spokesperson said they have sent the numbers in order to have them registered with their respective Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs).

 “By order of the Federal Government, today is given as the last chance to register your NIMC or face the wrath of what comes next,” the rep tweeted. 

Recall that on December 15, 2020, the Federal Government declared that after December 30, 2020, all SIMs that were not registered with valid NINs on the network of telecommunications companies would be blocked.

It later extended the December 30, 2020 deadline following widespread of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic against the earlier announcement and gave three weeks’ extension for subscribers with NIN from December 30, 2020, to January 19, 2021.

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It also gave six weeks’ extension for subscribers without NIN from December 30, 2020, to February 9, 2021, but many organisations have called for a further deadline extension or outright suspension of the NIN registration process due to the large crowds who had yet to have their NINs.

Although the NIMC refused to speak on the matter after several calls and messages were sent to senior officials of the commission on the subject.