FG extends NIN-SIM linkage by four weeks

FG extends NIN-SIM linkage by four weeks

The Federal Government has extended the deadline for linking Subscriber Identification Modules with valid National Identity Numbers by one month.

Aso Naija understood that it declared openly the extension on Friday in a statement issued in Abuja by the spokesperson of the National Identity Management Commission, Kayode Adegoke.

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The deadline was extended from April 6, 2021, to May 6, 2021, after participants at the meeting of the Ministerial Task Force on NIN-SIM data linkage agreed to have an extension of the process.

The statement read in part, “The meeting took place on Thursday, April 1, 2021, and approval was given to extend the period of the NIN-SIM linkage to the 6th of May, 2021.

“The request for the extension was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari and he endorsed it.”