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The Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to block over 9 million unregistered SIM cards in circulation in the country, until the users present themselves.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Pantami made the disclosure on Thursday while addressing the executive councils of both the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), who paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry’s Headquarters, Abuja.
The professional bodies were at the Ministry to congratulate the Minister on his appointment and to also pledged their 100% support to move Nigeria’s ICT sector forward.
Pantami asserted that President Muhammadu Buhari is a result-oriented individual, stressing that his modest achievement as the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) elevated him to the post he occupies today on merit.
Pantami further admonished the positive contributions stakeholders in the ICT sector are playing which has resulted in ICT surpassing oil and gas in contributions to the nation’s Gross Domestics Product (GDP).
“I am here with a clear vision to promote Nigeria’s ICT sector and move her to the next level”, he concluded.