NCA Rolls Out Punitive Actions Against Unregistered SIM Card Users From Today

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced its decision to roll out some punitive actions against users who have not registered their SIM Cards. This new move is expected to take effect from Monday, September 5, 2022. According to a statement signed by the Authority’s Director-General, outgoing calls

and data services for a sequential batch of numbers will be blocked for 2 days weekly on a rotational basis. “MNOs [Mobile Network Operators] shall divide the unregistered SIMs into five batches for the purpose of implementing this punitive measure. “These measures shall exclude blocking of SMS to give defaulting

subscribers the opportunity to initiate registration if they so wish. Subscribers who fully register their SIM Cards within the period they have been blocked will only be unblocked by the MNOs after the 48 hours to avoid the MNOs tampering with their systems intermittently,” parts of the statement read.