{"id":53300,"date":"2024-10-10T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ncc-announces-completion-of-sim-nin-linkage\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:04:47","slug":"ncc-announces-completion-of-sim-nin-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ncc-announces-completion-of-sim-nin-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC announces completion of SIM, NIN linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has announced that the linking of all phone numbers with NIN and SIM has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Vice Chairman of NCC Aminu Maida declared this on Thursday while addressing attendees during the 2024 annual corporate governance conference taking place in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have recently concluded the implementation of the federal government\u2019s 2020 policy of linking every phone number to a NIN,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough it was a bit painful for Nigerians, I think we also need to appreciate what that does for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, there is no phone number that we cannot associate with a verified NIN. Not just a number, but a number that has been verified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NCC announces completion of SIM, NIN linkage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has announced that the linking of all phone numbers with NIN and SIM has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4170,15,7241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncc","category-news","category-nin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}