How To Register Nigeria Mtn Number With Your Mobile Phone

How to obtain, link national identification number on MTN, 9mobile, Airtel

…costs N20 using USSD …every bit FRSC now requires NIN for licence awarding

Dec 17, 2020

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Stakeholders in Nigeria's telecommunication industry are coming upward with innovative ways to facilitate the registration and linking procedure of the National Identification Number (NIN) through the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and online platforms.

Even though lawmakers accept extended the NIN registration and linking to SIM card to x weeks instead of the initial two weeks, telcos and the industry regulator have an almost incommunicable task on their easily to register what BusinessDay estimates to be nineteen million subscribers without the NIN.

It took the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) 10 years to classify 42 million NINs, an indication of the slow and lengthy process of securing NINs. BusinessDay estimates put the number of those likely to be affected at 24.three million.

Following the move by the Federal Government of Nigeria to validate the identity of all mobile phone subscribers and check mobile-aided crimes in the state, it recently directed all mobile operators through the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economic system to ensure SIM cards are linked to a National Identification Number (NIN).

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Instructed by the ministry, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) is expected to revise the policy on SIM bill of fare registration and usage to include the NIN and thus, directed mobile operators to append the auction of new SIM cards as the industry regulator bank check their compliance with registration guidelines.

According to the Federal Government, the NIN will soon go a compulsory requirement in obtaining licences and filling for applications in the country.

To hasten the NIN registration and linking to SIM card, mobile users can either obtain or link their NIN through the USSD or website options provided by some of the service providers.

USSD

Nigerians tin can either use the USSD or go to the website of their service providers to obtain and link their NIN to their SIM card, said Bashir Ahmad, personal banana on media to President Muhhamdu Buhari.

"For those using Airtel as a network provider, dial *121# to submit you NIN for verification and subsequently link information technology to your number. For MTN, punch *785#," Ahmad said.

Checks by BusinessDay prove that the USSD option, notwithstanding, comes with a cost of N20.

"Welcome to NIMC USSD Service. This service will cost you N20. Press 1 to recollect your NIN or ii to cancel," a network provider responded when this reporter tried using the USSD code.

Airtel Nigeria said, "Don't look till it'south too tardily. Link your National Identification Number (NIN) to your phone number. Just dial *121*1# now to link, and *346# to know your NIN."

To check for the NIN status on 9mobile, the service provider said its users should dial *346#. It said information technology is "in the light of the new directive from NCC to link NIN to SIM registration" that 9 mobile is "making endeavour to develop a system that would make things simple for its customers".

Website

Co-ordinate to Ahmad, there is also an pick for service users to visit the websites of service providers to obtain the NIN. He pleaded with Nigerians to share the data to others as "we motility fast towards a digital Nigeria".

On using the online platform for the NIN, Airtel Nigeria tweeted on Thursday that the NIN is "important for your SIM registration" and as such, information technology directed that customers can use a link on its platform to "locate the nearest NIN enrolment centre to get a NIN".

NIN now a requirement for commuter'due south licence

Meanwhile, the Federal Road Condom Corps (FRSC) has announced that the NIN volition become one of the requirements for applying for a driver's licence in the country with the most population in Africa.

"Following the Federal Government'south directives on the harmonisation of citizens' data by relevant agencies, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) had in compliance with the directives before put members of the public on discover," the licencing agency said on its Twitter handle.

As a follow up to that, FRSC said in a certificate signed by the Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem that its "direction has resolved that constructive 21 December, 2020, all applicants for the National Commuter's Licence in Nigeria must present the National Identification Number (NIN) from the NIMC before they can be captured for whatsoever class of the licences produced past the FRSC".

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