Telecoms Have been Licensed To Provide NIN – NIMC

Telecoms Have been Licensed To Provide NIN – NIMC.

All the telecommunications companies in Nigeria have been licensed to register people who do not have National Identity Numbers so as to reduce the large crowds at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission, the NIMC reveals.

The Director – General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, said some other private and public organizations had also been licensed by the commission to provide NINs in order to address the crowds at commission’ s offices .

This came as workers of the commission told our correspondent on Tuesday that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, had constituted a committee to address the demands of NIMC employees.

NIMC workers had downed tools on January 7, 2021 in protest against the poor welfare issues at the commission, but their strike was suspended after the intervention of the minister.

Responding to an enquiry as regards measures taken by NIMC with respect to complains by citizens and the crowds at the commission’ s offices, Aziz said mobile network operators had been empowered to also give the identity numbers .

 “We have licensed private and public sector organizations including telcos (telecommunications companies) so as to create more centers,” he stated in a WhatsApp message to our correspondent.

On the meeting between NIMC workers and the communication minister, the President, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC Unit, Asekokhai Lucky, said some resolutions were reached.

He said the minister told the union that some of the demands being presented by the workers were new to him, as he only took over the supervisory role of NIMC in October 2020.

 “So what he (Pantami) did was to set up a seven-man committee to work on the issues and submit a report to him in two weeks’ time,” Lucky stated.

Lucky said the 21-day ultimatum earlier issued the management of NIMC was still in force, although there had been calls for the union to step down the ultimatum.