It is understood that recharge cards and vouchers are part of the new items on the list of goods that will be taxed in the Finance Act. Nigerians will suffer more in the coming months following the decision of the Federal Government to impose a five per cent excise duty on telephone recharge cards and […]
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NIN-SIM: Reverse Decision To Block Phone Lines Of 72 Mln Subscribers, SERAP Tells Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to immediately reverse the apparently unlawful decision to block over 72 million active telecommunication subscribers from making calls on their SIMs.” Last week, the Federal Government ‘ordered’ […]
FG Directs Telcos To Bar Outgoing Calls On Unlinked Lines From 4th April, 2022
On behalf of the Federal Government, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has commended Nigerians and Legal Residents for their support during the exercise to link National Identification Number (NIN) to the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM). As of date, over 125 Million SIMs have had their NINs submitted […]
FG Urges Citizens To Link NIN to SIM Today Without Delay
The general public would recall that the Federal Government approved an extension of the NIN-SIM linkage deadline to the 31st of March, 2022. In preparation for the enforcement, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) urges citizens and legal residents to use the next few days to ensure that […]