A mobile app to enhance the subscriber identity module (SIM) and national identification number (NIN) linkage, has been launched by the Federal Government.
Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, made this known in a statement on Thursday, in Abuja.
He said the federal government also launched “tokenization” and “contactless enrolment” as innovative solutions to improve data privacy.
He stated that the app will make it easy for citizens to link their NIN to their phone numbers, without having to physically visit Telecommunication centres.
“As part of our efforts to make it easy for citizens to link their NIN to their phone numbers, we developed a mobile app that allows users to do so without having to physically visit any telecoms company. It also enables users to download the improved NIN slips and use mobile IDs as a valid and secure means of identification,” he said.
He noted that the launch of the products is in line with President Buhari’s desire to promote indigenous solutions that would be known around the world.
