Nigeria Blocks 73 Million Mobile Phones From Making Calls For Not Being Linked to ‘National Identity Number’

Nigeria’s federal government ordered telecommunication companies to bar calls from phone numbers not yet linked to a National Identity Number (“NIN”), as well as unregistered SIM cards to be disconnected. “Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa –  a region Bill Gates’ GAVI targeted in 2020 to introduce a … Continue reading Nigeria Blocks 73 Million Mobile Phones From Making Calls For Not Being Linked to ‘National Identity Number’