The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has developed a cellular utility that permits authorised business stakeholders to scan telephones’ International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers and add system data to its verification platform. The regulator is stepping up efforts to implement gear approval necessities.
The fee introduced the event at a media briefing on Thursday when it mentioned the appliance is designed to simplify compliance for producers, importers, distributors and telephone sellers.
The app types a part of the NCC’s Device Checker initiative, which permits customers to test whether or not gadgets have obtained regulatory approval earlier than buy. The fee says the broader platform is meant to assist curb the circulation of counterfeit, cloned, unauthorised and different non-compliant gadgets in Nigeria.
TechCabal’s evaluation of the system verification system on October 20, 2026, had examined how the nation’s advanced telephone distribution community may complicate enforcement. Devices transfer by means of producers, main importers, regional distributors and smaller retailers earlier than reaching customers, making it tough to determine duty when a tool fails regulatory checks.
The new utility gives an extra software for accumulating system data throughout this chain.
The Commission says its “user-friendly” Device Checker utility “enables authorised stakeholders to quickly scan device IMEIs and upload information directly to the platform.”
In follow, the app is meant to enhance effectivity and ease compliance for authorised stakeholders. This offers the fee a technique to gather system data from companies throughout the availability chain and test compliance with its Type Approval necessities.
The regulator additionally reported progress in licensing and regularising telephone sellers in Kano State, alongside sensitisation engagements with importers and different business contributors in Lagos and elsewhere.
The actual measure is whether or not the app will help the regulator hint non-compliant telephones again by means of the availability chain.
