The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that there will not be mass disconnection of telephone subscribers over National Identity Numbers (NIN) registration.
The agency who disclosed that the current linkage of SIM registration records with the NIN was aimed at enhancing general safety and helping the government to plan for national development, said the clarification became very necessary as many subscribers had become jittery that their lines might be disconnected over NIN registration.
Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, advised the public to ignore speculations of mass disconnection being circulated in some sections of the media and also added that the publications “are based on the erroneous assumption that for every network or SIM connection, there is one unique human subscriber”.
