The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered telecommunication operators to immediately reconnect all phone lines that were blocked as part of the NIN-SIM verification exercise.
The NCC gave the directive in a statement on Monday.
Over the weekend many Nigerians were unable to access their phone lines due to their “inability to verify” the linkage of “their national identification numbers (NINs) with their subscriber identification modules (SIMs)”.
This meant that their numbers were blocked by their telecom service providers in keeping with the country’s NIN-SIM linkage policy.
The NCC urged members of the public who are yet to verify their SIMs to do so “as soon as possible to maintain access to their lines”.