The House of Representatives on Wednesday asked the Federal Government to extend by 10 weeks the deadline for the blocking of all SIM cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers (NIN).
The federal government (FG) on Tuesday gave telecommunications operators, including MTN, Glo, Airtel, 9Mobile and others two weeks ultimatum to block all SIM cards that are not registered with the NIN.
The House, at the plenary on Wednesday, described the two weeks given to SIM card users by the Nigerian Communications Commission to provide their NIN to service providers as grossly inadequate.
The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu moved the motion of urgent public importance to demand more time for Nigerians to ratify their mobiles with their NIN.
Adopting the motion, the House resolved that the exercise should end on January 28, 2021, as against December 30, 2020.
The NCC had threatened that SIM cards not linked to NIN issued by the National Identity Management Commission would be blocked.