NIMC PORTAL CRASHES, BANKS, TELCOS, PASSPORT ISSUANCE SUFFER
Thousands of telecommunication subscribers nationwide seeking to retrieve their lost Subscriber Identity Module cards or acquire new lines temporarily have been left stranded, following a technical glitch in the National Identity Management Commission portal that has grounded SIM-related services. The affected NIMC portal enables telecom firms, the Nigerian Immigration Service, banks and other organisations to verify the National Identity Number of their customers before attending to them, in line with the Federal Government’s directive. Following the directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission for the inclusion of NIN in the requirements for all new and existing SIM cards, telecom firms are required to synchronise their SIM registration portals with the NIMC portal in order to verify the details of their subscribers. DOWNTIME ENTERS SIXTH DAY, MTN, GLO, AIRTEL, 9MOBILE SUSPEND SIM REPLACEMENT/ACQUISITION However, the downtime experienced over the past five days by ...