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The Nigerian Communication Commission says a total of 47.8 million NINs have been collected by the mobile operators in the current NIN-SIM linkage exercise. In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the Commission said at an average of 3 to 4 SIMs per subscriber, many millions will be linked up before the deadline in February 2021. The statement signed by Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, Director of Public Affairs of the Commission said the technical implementation committee under the Ministerial taskforce has acknowledged the significant progress in the ongoing NIN-SIM linkage exercise.
# As the deadline for telephone subscribers with National Identity Numbers to register their SIM cards with the identity numbers elapsed on Tuesday, mobile operators said that SIM’s with unlinked but submitted NINs would not be blocked. The Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, spoke on behalf of the telecommunications companies including Airtel, MTN, Globacom, and 9Mobile. He said, subscribers who have NIN and have delivered the number to their service providers with acknowledgment and forwarded to NIMC, will not be disconnected Adebayo said the penalty would be mainly for those who do not have the NIN and who were unable to deliver their NINs to their service providers. The media aide to the communications minister, Uwa Suleiman, said an extension of the January 19th deadline remains uncertain. #
The Federal Government says it will resume the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme across the country by February. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this, on Monday, in Abuja at the 4th annual review of the scheme. She said the school feeding scheme will begin immediately school resumes and payment will be made at the third week of the month. Farouq said additional five million pupils, including children in non-conventional educational settings, would be added to the scheme. #
The Federal Government said it has given a grant of Twenty Thousand Naira each to about two hundred and forty-seven female cattle breeders in Kebbi State under the aegis of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association through the Special Cash Grant for Rural Women. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, in a statement by her Senior Special Adviser on Media, Nneka Anibeze, explained that the funds were distributed to improve the economic wellbeing of the female cattle breeders. She explained that the Federal Government’s Special Cash Grant for Rural women has so far been launched in 16 states including Plateau, Sokoto, Imo, Ebonyi, Nassarawa, Kebbi, Katsina, Bauchi, Taraba, Ekiti, Ondo, Adamawa, Gombe, Kano, Jigawa and Zamfara states. #
Delta state Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has decried the rising cases of kidnapping, killings and attacks on clergy men and worship centres in the country. The governor spoke at a security seminar tagged Securing worship centres and clergymen in contemporary Nigeria, organised in Asaba. The governor, represented by Commissioner for Information, Ehiedu Aniagwu, stated that while security agents were working hard to apprehend perpetrators of heinous crimes, it had become imperative to equip church leaders and families with basic knowledge on personal security and safety at places of worship. #
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Tuesday, debunked rumours in certain quarters that it had concluded plans to impeach Governor Douye Diri. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Orientation and Strategy, Tare Porri, denied the speculation at a press briefing in Yenagoa. He said the rumoured impeachment move against Diri was vexatious and unfounded as well as an attempt to distract the 6th Assembly. #
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Convention Planning Committee has directed Lai Mohammed, Saraki and Abdulrazak to return to the North central zone for reconciliation. The major stakeholders behind the crisis last week, had stormed the national secretariat of the party for a reconciliation meeting, with their supporters that halted activities at the party Although the key actors failed to speak to newsmen after the meeting chaired by James Akpanudoedehe, Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, the Niger state governor, Abubakar Bello, promised that the zonal stakeholders will be very fair to the warring factions, warning that the interest of the party will however be considered first. #
Foremost political economist, Professor Pat Utomi, has said that the incoming administration of U.S President-elect, Joe Biden, won’t oppose the candidacy of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the race for the director general of the World Trade Organisation. Utomi, who stated this in an interview on Monday, said Biden has demonstrated multilateralism and as such would promote inclusion. #
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