BREAKING: FG Bans SIM Card Importation, Give Reasons | READ DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
Aug 01, 2022
BREAKING: FG Bans SIM Card Importation, Give Reasons | READ DETAILS
The Federal Government of Nigeria, on Monday, August 1, 2022, announced a ban on Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) Card importation.
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The minister for communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami announced this while speaking at the Nigerian Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo (NTICE) organized by the Nigeria Office for Developing Indigenous Telecoms Sector (NODITS) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in Oniru, Lagos state.
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According to the minister, Nigeria which is Africa's biggest country, cannot be importing what it can produce internally.
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He called on all to support the federal government's vision of promoting locally made products.
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"Let me make it clear that the federal government will no longer tolerate the importation of sim cards. We are now producing them in Nigeria.
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"Our aim is to increase indigenous content in the ICT sector so that by 2025, we will be self-reliant by at least 80 percent", Pantami said.
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The minister had in June, revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration had established a SIM card manufacturing plant in Lagos.
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According to him, the facility, built with private sector support, has the capacity to produce 200 million cards annually and also export them to other African countries.
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