The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Wisdom Yayra Koku Deku, has opposed suggestions that telecom operators and the Authority should simply match their biometric databases to complete SIM registration processes. In a Facebook post on Friday, March 20, 2026, Yayra Koku described the proposal as a serious threat to data privacy and […] The post NIA rejects ‘dangerous’ SIM data matching proposal, insists on biometric consent appeared first on Metro TV Online .