The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Identity Management Commission to remove the 20-naira fee imposed on subscribers for National Identity Number retrieval requests.
Pantami said this in a statement today signed by his spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, in Abuja.
The minister’s directive, which the spokesperson said took immediate effect, was an intervention aimed at making the process easier and affordable.
He said that the Executive Vice-Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission and the Director-General of National Identity Management Commission, informed him in a letter conveying the implementation of the directive, that the relevant authorities had met and negotiated a waiver with the Mobile Network Operators in that regard.
The Federal Government had earlier directed that National Identification Numbers be integrated with SIMs for security purposes.
