NCC introduces enhanced device checks to block fake, non-compliant phones in Nigeria

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has commenced the implementation of an enhanced Type Approval Compliance model aimed astatine identifying fake, cloned and non-compliant SIM-enabled connection devices successful Nigeria.

The Commission said that the inaugural is designed to amended web performance, fortify user extortion and guarantee that connection devices imported, sold and utilized successful the state conscionable established method and regulatory standards.

The Director of Technical Standards and Network Integrity astatine the NCC, Engr. Edoyemi Ogoh, disclosed this connected Tuesday, October 13, 2026, during a media briefing astatine the Commission’s caput bureau annex successful Mbora, Abuja.

Ogoh explained that the inaugural would alteration the Commission to electronically verify the Type Approval presumption of SIM-enabled devices, making it easier to place instrumentality that does not comply with applicable requirements.

According to him, the prime and information of devices connected to telecommunications networks are indispensable to maintaining reliable services and protecting consumers.

“The integrity of the telecommunications manufacture depends not lone connected web infrastructure but besides connected the quality, information and compliance of the devices that entree and are utilized connected these networks,” helium said.

He added that Type Approval was much than a regulatory requirement, describing it arsenic a vita...