Nigeria Loses 59.7m Active Lines After NIN–SIM Cleanup, NCC Reports
Nigeria’s telecommunications sector witnessed one of its steepest corrections in recent years as active voice subscriptions plunged by 59.7 million in 2024, following the strict enforcement of the National Identification Number–Subscriber Identity Module (NIN–SIM) linkage policy. This is according to the Nigerian Communications Commission’s 2024 Subscriber and Network Performance Report. The number of active lines…