Mr Pantami commended Kano governor Abdullahi Ganduje for planning to lay fibre optic round the state in the next two years.
The UK Parliament has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s actions indicate support for incessant terrorists and bandits’ attacks targeted at individuals and communities.
The consulate general of Nigeria in New York says it is making arrangements to enrol Nigerians living in the U.S. for NIN as part of Isa Pantami’s push.
The extension was also aimed at addressing low enrolments in schools and hospitals, according to compiled data.
The NCC says only about 50 per cent of polling units in the country have 3G network that can transmit election results electronically.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto says that the Senate has voided the 2023 elections by giving INEC’s constitutional powers to NCC.
This move by the Senate has denied Nigeria’s electoral commission (INEC) the power to transmit results of elections electronically, while NCC is given the power to decide.
Isa Pantami’s intention has unsettled some Nigerians online, who said it was suspicious that a minister with extremist views dragged a secular Nigeria into an alliance of Muslims.
Pantami has commended Nigerians for complying with the directive to link their NIN to their SIM as the federal government extends the exercise to July 26.
Nigeria’s communications minister Isa Pantami says Nigerians need NIN for digital identity, describing it as the foundation of President Buhari regime’s digitisation project.
