Nigeria: After Many Deadlines, 73 million SIM-NIN Unlinked Subscribers Barred from Making Calls

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 “biometric identity platform.”