{"id":5804,"date":"2021-10-28T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2021-10-28T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:45:43","slug":"nimc-likely-to-take-decision-on-sim-nin-linkage-extension-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"NIMC Likely To Take Decision On SIM-NIN Linkage Extension Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The National Identity Management Commission, has said that the institution is likely to reach a decision on whether or not to extend the deadline for the SIM-NIN linkage today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NIMC spokesperson, Kayode Adegoke disclosed this today during an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him,\u201dI can\u2019t say anything for now. But there is a press release waiting for the minister\u2019s approval that should be available today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo had earlier in an interview said the nation was making progress as regards the SIM-NIN linkage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The deadline for the SIM-NIN linkage is going to expire on October 31, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe have covered a lot of ground. There has to be a meeting within the stakeholders to determine if there should be an extension,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A recent statement by the Nigerian Communications Commission urged subscribers to link their NINs with their SIMs before the expiration of the deadline of October 31, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Identity Management Commission, has said that the institution is likely to reach a decision on whether or not to extend the deadline for the SIM-NIN linkage today. NIMC spokesperson, Kayode Adegoke disclosed this today during an interview. According to him,\u201dI can\u2019t say anything for now. But there is a press release waiting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3544,3547,3543,3546,3545],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bvn","tag-linkage-extension","tag-nimc","tag-nin","tag-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}