The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami has appealed to security agencies to make use of databases by National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to address security challenges. Pantami said this at the 4th National Identity Day celebration in Abuja with the theme ‘Traditional Institutions as Critical Stakeholders for Citizens Mobilisation”. He said both the Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) and the NIN were available to solve the security challenges currently faced in the country. “We are pleading with security institutions to make use of the database. “It is not…
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FG licenses 173 centres, 30 other institutions for NIN registration
Ø As Reps ask NCC to extend deadline for SIM update The Federal Government says it has licensed 173 centres and 30 state government institutions to conduct the enrollment of the National Identity Number (NIN) across the country. According to the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on its website yesterday, “The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), has approved the licensing of 173 Agents and 30 State Governments/Public Sector Institutions to conduct enrolment of all persons including legal residents into the National Identity Database (NIDB) on behalf…
Read More‘No inappropriately registered SIM on networks’ – Pantami
The Minister of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has dismissed the claim that the Senate summoned him concerning the role of communication devices in national security. The Minister, in a statement made available to media, said the claim was baseless, noting that there was no improperly registered Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) on networks after 9.2 million SIMs were blocked in September 2019 based on the report submitted by the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) on the 26th of September 2019. While…
Read MoreInsecurity: Senate summons Communications Minister, Pantami over challenges
The Senate yesterday mandated its committees on Legislative Compliance and Communications to summon the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami over the use of telephones by kidnappers to negotiate ransom. The Red Chamber took the decision following a resolution after the consideration of a motion on the spate of growing insecurity in Nigeria. The Senator representing Taraba-South, Emmanuel Bwacha, who moved the motion, rising under Order 42 and 52 of the Senate Rules, noted that the rate of insecurity in Nigeria had not only increased astronomically but…
Read MoreReps Summon Amaechi, Zainab Ahmed, Pantami over 500 million dollar Chinese loan
The House of Representatives has demanded appearances by the minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, those of Communication and Finance, Dr. Ali Isa Pantami and Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, to provide answers on the $500 million loan to be sourced from the Export-Import Bank of China for railway lines in the country. They are also to provide details on the agreement signed between the Federal Ministry of Transport and the CCECC in respect of some railway projects in the country. The projects involved are the Abuja-Kaduna, Lagos-Ibadan, Ibadan-Kaduna and Kaduna-Kano rail…
Read MorePantami orders NIPOST to suspend new charges on courier
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has ordered the Nigerian Postal Service to halt the implementation of the new charges on courier and logistics companies immediately. Pantami said this in a tweet on Saturday. He said, “Please NIPOST, our attention has been drawn to an increase of licence fee, which was not part of the regulation I earlier approved for you. Your chairman and PMG (Postmaster-General) were yesterday contacted to put the implementation on hold and send a report to our ministry by Monday. Best wishes!” The…
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