The ongoing Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) to the National Identity Numbers (NINs) linkage exercise has been hampered by the widespread ownership of multiple SIM cards and a rising cost of living, leading to a rise in SIM abandonment. This challenge has resulted in several extensions of
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