The Nigerian government is considering replacing the Bank Verification Numbers with the National Identity Numbers, the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, said on Monday. Mr Pantami disclosed this while briefing journalists after a facility tour and inspection of the ongoing NIN enrolment exercise at NIMC and other […]
The ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise has been extended by 8 weeks, with a new deadline of April 6, 2021. This message was conveyed by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), FNCS, FBCS, FIIM during the […]
The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) is set to host the maiden edition of Virtual Structured Engagement with Key Stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT Sector on the New National Broadband Plan 2020- 2025 with a theme; – Realizing the new set target of 70% […]
Cautions Officers To Respect Rights Of Citizens While Urging Voluntary Compliance The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered the Assistant Inspectors General of Police in the seventeen (17) zonal commands and their constituent Commissioners of Police in the thirty-six (36) States of the Federation and […]
In a renewed offensive against human trafficking, police detectives in Anambra State have arrested ten persons suspected to be human traffickers in the state. The suspects are: Edna Nnadi (37 years), Ujunwa Nweke (25years), Izuchukwu Uba (24 years), Chinaza Ibeh (19years), Peace Okon Effiong (25years), Gift Collins (20years), Chimkaso Kingsley […]
A 28-year-old man Chukwuemeka Obijofa is now in police custody for allegedly hacking his wife Chisom Chukwuemeka (26 years old) and their four year old child Amanda Chukwuemeka to death with shovel at Ofufe Nza Village in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday. Police sources said the […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Wednesday in Lagos, assured that the Police would go after those responsible for the fire that razed part of Chief Sunday Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, Tuesday and bring them to book. The Police boss made the assertion during an interview with […]
A paradigm shift has finally been made by President Muhammadu Buhari as he has relieved the nation’s Service Chiefs of their portfolios and replacing them with new ones. In the new dispensation, Major-General Leo Irabor will serve as the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) while Major-General I. Attahiru is the […]
In line with its annual tradition of sharing with the less privileged ones in the society, Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria ( CRAN) on Wednesday donated food items and other valuables to the Old People’s Home at Yaba Lagos. The Association’s members had gone to the Home with bags of […]
Following the January 19, 2021 deadline given by the federal government for the submission of subscribers’ National Identification Number (NIN) ,telecoms operators have received a total of 47.8 million NINs from subscribers, even as submission of NINs has continued, the federal government has said. The number of active telecoms subscribers […]