May 01, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has appealed to Nigerians to think of safety that the liking of their Sims registration to their National Identification Number (NIN) will bring to doing their online businesses rather than the inconveniences of blocking their outgoing calls.
The commission, who said that its blockage of the unlinked SIMs was to safeguard Nigerians’ electronic transactions including financial and business services as well as prevention of crimes and criminality in the country, urged the citizens to consider such benefits above any difficulties
The Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Management of NCC, Barrister Adeleke Adewolu, disclosed this at the Village Square Dialogue held at the Centenary Hall, Ake, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
He said that the purpose of the meeting with consumers in Abeokuta was the firm recognition of the pride of place that this ancient city holds as a historical hub of Trade and Commerce – not only in South-West Nigeria, but in the Nation as a whole.
Adewolu, who stated that NCC would have totally barred the services of consumers that refused to link up their SIMs to their NIN from receiving calls, or using data to operate their social media platform or any online activities, averred that the commission did not do that in order to avail them opportunity of submitting their NIN to their mobile services operators on time.
He said that NCC only stopped people that refused to heed to the federal government directive in liking their SIMs to their NIN from making outgoing calls with their mobile phones, appealing to them to co-operatee with the commission in submitting their NIN for their SIMs to be unblocked.
The commissioner added that anybody who has a SIM and can be recognised and identified as the owner of the SIM should be the one to access telecommunication networks and the internet, noting that it would secure telecommunication industries in Nigerian and bring about socio-economic benefits to the country
He said, “You know that the Federal Government gave us a directive to introduce measures that will encourage the people who have not taken the opportunity to link their SIM with their National Identity Number since the Federal Government made this known.”
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