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NIN Registration: Nigerians react to overcrowding at NIMC amid COVID-19 restrictions
In line with the federal government’s directive that telecommunications companies should suspend phone subscribers who have no National Identification Number, NIN, large crowds gathered at the National Identity Management Commission in Lagos on Monday in a bid to register and obtain the National Identity Number.
The directive had came under criticism when it was announced. Many Nigerians said with only 41.5 million Nigerians out of an estimated 198 million active phone subscribers have NIN, millions of people would troop the centres and this was ill-advised as there is a looming threat of a second wave.
They also complained the two weeks’ time frame was too short.
The criticisms intensified as large crowds gathered at the NIMC office in Alausa, Lagos on Monday.
NewsWireNGR gathered that due to the overcrowding of it’s offices, NIMC was forced to closed it’s Lagos offices. Eyewitnesses report that officials of the NIMC shut down their systems and asked people to return to their homes.
However, an official statement confirming the shut down has not been made by the NIMC.