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.
Right now, just about 41.5 million Nigerians out of an expected 198 million dynamic telephone endorsers have NIN.
The vast majority of the individuals, who accumulated at the NIMC office in Alausa, were either not wearing face veils or not noticing physical separating, in this manner mocking the convention set up by the public authority in an offer to handle the spread of COVID-19 which has been on the expansion over the most recent multi week.
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who has additionally been contaminated with COVID-19, requested the conclusion of spots of love, schools, clubs and different spots which could pull in enormous groups.
A few concerned Nigerians had communicated worry over the abrupt mandate of the Federal Government and had approached that the cutoff time given for the enrollment be expanded however the public authority has stayed unyielding.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project had depicted the request as a maltreatment of basic freedoms and took steps to sue the Federal Government inside seven days on the off chance that it isn't cancelled.
The Federal Government as of late affirmed the permitting of 173 focuses and 30 state government establishments to direct enrolment of people into the National Identity Database. In any case, it was found out that the greater part of these elements couldn't begin the cycle promptly on the grounds that they came up short on the foundation and gear to do as such.
Telecoms monster, MTN, which is one of the organizations given the permit to enlist people into the NIMC information base, reported on Saturday that it was bringing in 14, 000 gadgets for the NIN enrollment and they are required to show up in about fourteen days.
Then, a few Nigerians have been scrutinizing the Federal Government via web-based media over the social event of huge groups in NIMC's workplaces.
Some of them blamed NIMC authorities for requesting pay off from them.
@ayegbajeje_ tweeted, "Those in Oshodi neighborhood government would baffle you. Individuals go as ahead of schedule as 4am for numbers. On the off chance that you can't get the number and need to enlist, you'll offer a N5000 incentive. On the off chance that you can stand by, you'll fill a structure for N100, pay 300 for printing and overlay. The circumstance as of 8.45am today.
"The structure is only an A4 paper with 'free' obviously composed on it. In the event that you make copies somewhere else it won't be gathered from you. By and by there are over 400+ individuals there challenging COVID-19 rule at the pinnacle of the subsequent wave."
Another young said via online media that ironicly the state government shut down clubs throughout the end of the week yet was allowing huge social events at NIMC.
"Lagos State Government sent police to Cubana to capture individuals making some great memories in the midst of all their insidiousness on residents, on account of supposed COVID-19 yet they are welcoming and feasting with COVID-19 with this NIN," @iamgerrardoxa tweeted.
The NIMC Spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, didn't react to approaches Monday.
@prinzgbemi, who shared photographs of from the Alausa office of NIMC, said the incongruity was that the workplace was scarcely five minutes from the lead representative's office.
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