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"Kano girls, having been married off from an orphanage, face abandonment by their husbands and endure abuse, as they are now forced to seek assistance to survive."

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The Nassarawa orphanage home in Kano is a refuge for abandoned children, many of whom have been found on the streets, lost due to the tragic loss of their parents or left behind after accidents. For years, the Kano State Government has played a crucial role in supporting the orphanage by providing food, clothing, and education until these children reach adulthood. As they grow up, the boys often find work in government positions or venture into entrepreneurship, while the girls are generally married off to suitors interested in them. Since the orphanage’s inception, hundreds of girls have entered into marriage, but some women have shared their struggles with DAILY POST, expressing feelings of abandonment after their husbands divorced them. They often endure abuse and mistreatment, facing significant challenges in seeking help or reporting their situations. Hadiza Muhammad, 40, and Halima Muhammad, 45, are among those who have suffered through domestic abuse for over twenty years of mar...
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UPDATED: NCC orders immediate reactivation of all blocked lines

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The Nigerian Correspondences Commission has guided media communications administrators to quickly reestablish all hindered telephone lines due to non-linkage of Public Distinguishing proof Numbers to SIM cards.

This order was revealed in an explanation on Monday by the Head of Media and Public Issues, Reuben Muoka.

The telecom business controller made sense of that this order was in light of the far and wide disturbance brought about by the blockages and to focus on purchaser accommodation.

Over the course of the end of the week, numerous telecom supporters couldn't get to their telephone lines subsequent to neglecting to confirm their NINs with their SIM cards, bringing about their numbers being obstructed in consistence with NIN-SIM linkage guidelines.

This advancement prompted huge shock on Monday as supporters raged MTN workplaces the nation over, requesting the reactivation of their hindered telephone lines.

“The consumer is our priority; therefore, considering the challenges the blockages have caused, the Commission has directed all operators to reactivate all lines that were disconnected over the weekend, in view of the short time available for consumers to undertake the verification of their NINs with their SIMs,” the regulator said.

The required linkage of NINs with SIMs, started in December 2020, planned to upgrade public safety and guarantee an exact SIM possession data set. Regardless of a few cutoff time expansions, including the most recent to July 31, 2024, many lines stay unconfirmed.

Since December 2023, the commission has inspected the cutoff time on various occasions. At first, April 15, 2024, was set as the cutoff time for the full organization, excepting endorsers with four or less SIMs that had unsubstantiated NIN subtleties.

This cutoff time was then stretched out to July 31, 2024, to give shoppers additional opportunity to guarantee their submitted NIN subtleties are appropriately checked.

In spite of these expansions, many telephone lines are yet to be connected with checked NINs, the NCC deplored.

The controller explained that the impacted customers ought to take note of that this reactivation is for a restricted period to permit them to connect their NIN to their SIM appropriately.

The commission asked all endorsers who have not yet checked their SIMs to do so immediately to keep up with admittance to their administrations.

In the interim, the telcoms, under the aegis of the Relationship of Authorized Telecom Administrators of Nigeria, prior explained that the disengagement was detached to the August 1 dissent.

Telecom administrators made sense of that this harmonization cycle had been in progress for a considerable length of time and meant to improve the exactness and respectability of the Public SIM enrollment data set.

“Customers who had their lines blocked recently are those whom their service providers found a mismatch between their records on both databases.

“We advise such customers to contact their service providers through communicated channels for resolution of the issue,” the group explained.

ALTON accentuated its obligation to supporting government endeavors and shielding correspondence freedoms, information protection, and security.

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