Nigeria: NCC Declares 63.2% SIM Registrations Invalid

Telephone subscribers are once again thrown into pandemonium, as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday, declared about 63.2 per cent of the Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM) cards data information processed by the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in the country as invalid.

Invalid, in the sense that data collected are beset with some irregularities such as invalid face capturing and fingerprints, wrong biometrics, among others.

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