During the 2024 annual corporate Governance conference held in Lagos on Thursday, the executive vice-chairman of the NCC announced that it had completed the linking of all phone numbers in the country to a national Identification number.
He stated the significance of the NIN-SIM linkage and also mentioned that it will help reduce crime in the country.
He said, “We have recently concluded the implementation of the federal government’s 2020 policy of linking every phone number to a NIN.
Though it was a bit painful for Nigerians, I think we also need to appreciate what this does for us.”
“Today, there is no phone number that we cannot associate with a verified NIN. Not just a number, but a number that has been verified.”
“If this phone number is involved in any crime, I can now authoritatively say, based on the NIN linked to it, this is the person using that phone number” he said.
