Large crowds gathered at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission in Lagos on Monday in a bid to register and obtain the National Identity Number .
The development comes just days after the Nigerian Communication Commission ordered telecommunications companies to within two weeks suspend phone subscribers who have no NIN.
Currently, only about 41. 5 million Nigerians out of an estimated 198 million active phone subscribers have NIN .
Most of the people, who gathered at the NIMC office in Alausa, were either not wearing face masks or not observing physical distancing , thereby flouting the protocol put in place by the government in a bid to tackle the spread of COVID -19 which has been on the increase in the last one week.
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Culled from The Punch
