SIM Registration: NIMC Issues Fresh Guidelines for NIN Applicants

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) yesterday
issued fresh guidelines for applicants to obtain their National
Identification Number.

NIMC spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, made this known in a statement
titled, ‘NIMC Adopts Booking System For NIN Enrolment’.

The statement partly read, “Mindful of the second wave of the
COVID-19 which continues to severely affect public health and cause
unprecedented disruptions, the commission wishes to announce that
it has adopted a couple of measures to contain the spread of the
virus whilst ensuring its services to Nigerians are not entirely
interrupted.

“Effective December 30, 2020, attending to applicants would be
based on Booking System. For Bookings, applicants are to visit any
of the NIMC Offices closest to them during stipulated business
hours (9am – 1pm).

“Once admitted into the office, a Number-Issuing queue
management system will be in place to ensure orderliness and strict
adherence to Covid-19 Protocols.”

The Commission also urged all applicants to use their face
masks, observe social distancing and wash their hands while at its
centres nationwide.

The federal government through the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) ordered telecommunications companies to deactivate
telephone lines of subscribers who failed to link their phones to
their National Identity Number.

Large crowd thronging the NIMC web portal for the process of
obtaining their National Identity Number led to the crash of the
portal last week.

Large crowds also resurfaced at NIMC centres nationwide on
Tuesday after the Christmas break.

As of October, the total number of mobile network connections
was 207.58 million, but currently, only 43 million Nigerians have
NIN, thus 164 million telephone users are at the risk of being
deactivated on January 19, 2021.

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) yesterday
issued fresh guidelines for applicants to obtain their National
Identification Number.

NIMC spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, made this known in a statement
titled, ‘NIMC Adopts Booking System For NIN Enrolment’.

The statement partly read, “Mindful of the second wave of the
COVID-19 which continues to severely affect public health and cause
unprecedented disruptions, the commission wishes to announce that
it has adopted a couple of measures to contain the spread of the
virus whilst ensuring its services to Nigerians are not entirely
interrupted.

“Effective December 30, 2020, attending to applicants would be
based on Booking System. For Bookings, applicants are to visit any
of the NIMC Offices closest to them during stipulated business
hours (9am – 1pm).

“Once admitted into the office, a Number-Issuing queue
management system will be in place to ensure orderliness and strict
adherence to Covid-19 Protocols.”

The Commission also urged all applicants to use their face
masks, observe social distancing and wash their hands while at its
centres nationwide.

The federal government through the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) ordered telecommunications companies to deactivate
telephone lines of subscribers who failed to link their phones to
their National Identity Number.

Large crowd thronging the NIMC web portal for the process of
obtaining their National Identity Number led to the crash of the
portal last week.

Large crowds also resurfaced at NIMC centres nationwide on
Tuesday after the Christmas break.

As of October, the total number of mobile network connections
was 207.58 million, but currently, only 43 million Nigerians have
NIN, thus 164 million telephone users are at the risk of being
deactivated on January 19, 2021.