After four months of suspension, registration of new SIM cards will now resume in Nigeria, according to a press statement by the ministry of Communication & digital economy
On Wednesday evening, *Femi, the owner of a last-mile delivery service in Lagos sent me a text; “is there any way I can get a SIM card? I have been trying for weeks.”
With no SIM cards, he cannot move forward with his plan to extend his company’s services to Abuja.
A global consumer organisation has raised some concerns over Nigeria’s Sim Card registration laws, going as far as to call them invasive
But you shouldn’t turn a blind eye to it anyway