The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa
Ibrahim has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National
Identity Management Commission to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on
subscribers for National Identification Number retrieval requests.
The NCC had recently asked telecommunication service
providers to block SIM cards not registered with NIN after two weeks.
The government also listed 173 centres and 30 state
government institutions approved for NIN enrolment across Nigeria.
Subscribers who had enrolled for NIN in the past but don’t
remember their identification numbers are required to pay a fee for the retrieval.
But in a statement on Friday by the spokesperson for the
minister, Uwa Suleiman, the government ordered telcos to stop the deduction for
NIN retrieval.
The statement titled, ‘Pantami Orders Cancellation Of NIN
Retrieval Charge Across All Networks’, partly read, “The Minister’s directive
which takes immediate effect, is an intervention aimed at making the process
easier and affordable.
“In a letter conveying the implementation of the directive, the Executive Vice Chairman NCC and the Director-General of NIMC informed Dr Pantami that the relevant authorities had met with, and negotiated a waiver with the Mobile Network Operators in that regard.
“By this waiver, all Nigerians, subscribers and applicants
can access the service using the *346# code for their NIN retrieval at no
charge for the duration of the NIN/SIM Card integration exercise.”
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