{"id":45444,"date":"2020-12-16T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=45444"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:06:25","slug":"sim-registration-extend-deadline-for-nin-update-to-10-weeks-reps-tell-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/sim-registration-extend-deadline-for-nin-update-to-10-weeks-reps-tell-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM Registration: Extend Deadline For NIN Update To 10 Weeks, Reps Tell FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to extend the deadline for the provision of National Identification Number by telecommunication service subscribers to 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The House, at the plenary on Wednesday, described the two weeks given to SIM card users by the Nigerian Communications Commission to provide their NIN to service providers as grossly inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu, had moved a motion of urgent public importance to demand more time.<\/p>\n<p>Adopting the motion, the House resolved that the exercise should end on January 28, 2021, as against December 30, 2020.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The NCC had threatened that SIM cards not linked to NIN issued by the National Identity Management Commission would be blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Details later\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to extend the deadline for the provision of National Identification Number by telecommunication service subscribers to 10 weeks.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-45444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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