How To Link Your NIN To Your Phone Number On The Airtel Network

Linking your National Identity Number(NIN) to your phone number has been made easy on the Airtel network, with the aid of the portal and USSD made available by Airtel users can easily link their NIN to their phone without the need to visit any offline office or even call customer care agents.

Linking one’s NIN has been made compulsory by the federal government mandated by Nation’s Communications Commission, failure to do so will result in disconnection of the user’s SIM card, MTN, Airtel, and Glo has made it easy for everyone to link their NIN to their SIM card, here is how you can link your NIN to your Airtel SIM card.

How To Link Your NIN To Your Phone Number On The Airtel Network

Follow the instructions below to easily add your NIN to your Airtel mobile phone number, there are two procedures

First Procedure

Click here to get your NIN number or get it from your National Identity Card

1~ Open your phone dialer then dial *121*1# on the Airtel line you wish to link.

2~ Type 1 for “NIN Capture” and send.
Enter your 11-digit NIN and send.

Then for the message confirming your submission. If for any reason you get an error, just wait for some time and try again.

Second Procedure

1~ Visit http://www.airtel.com.ng/nin

2~ Enter your phone number in the provided box without the first zero(e.g 8024861578).
Now, click on send OTP.

3~ An OTP will be sent to your phone.
Enter the OTP in the provided box and click on proceed to complete the other required fields and details

That’s all on how you can easily link your NIN to your phone number on the Airtel Nigeria network