Buhari needs DMS carried out in a quarter of a year. 

As a component of new safety efforts in the country, particularly violations related to cell phones, the Federal Government has set up another strategy to handle telephone robbery wrongdoings. 

Labeled Device Management System (DMS), which will be overseen by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the technique will fill in as a vault for all enlisted cell phones' International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and proprietors of such gadgets in the country. 

The IMEI is a 15-digit novel number for cell phones that distinguishes every cell phone and its model determination. It very well may be utilized in the following of taken telephones. 

This new advancement is contained in the overhauled National Identity Policy for SIM Card enrollment as of late revealed by President Muhammadu Buhari; Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami; Chairman of the NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande and the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta. 

As per the 45-page report by The Guardian yesterday, the DMS will fill in as a data set for sharing data on taken gadgets across all organizations. 

The DMS will likewise give admittance to all administrators to cross-check the IMEIs and their status before permitting a gadget to get dynamic on their organization. Additionally, enrolled cell phone experts will be furnished with an interface to check IMEIs and guarantee it has not been accounted for as taken or unlawful before they render their specialized administrations. 

The Federal Government clarified further that this would assist with shortening the fake cell phone market, debilitate cell phone robbery, upgrade National Security, ensure customer premium, increment. 

Income age for the public authority, decrease the pace of seizing, moderate the utilization of taken telephones for wrongdoing and work with impeding or following of taken cell phones and other keen gadgets. 

While President Buhari has coordinated that the DMS ought to be executed inside a quarter of a year, the targets of the new approach are to enroll and catch the IMEIs of every single cell phone and other keen gadgets on the DMS, which will fill in as a vault for sharing information of taken gadgets across all organizations. It is to guarantee all un-enlisted gadgets don't work in any of the organizations in Nigeria, guarantee each announced IMEIs for taken and unlawful cell phones and other keen gadgets are boycotted and imparted to all administrators across all organizations, moderate cell phone burglary, and shield Nigerians from been assaulted to grab their cell phones and other brilliant gadgets and boycott and render all taken cell phones and other keen gadgets useless in the Nigerian Mobile Phones Market. 

Different targets incorporate facilitating the utilization of cell phones and other brilliant gadgets in all open spots unafraid of been assaulted by cell phone snatchers, working with the utilization of computerized innovation answers to address main points of interest pestering Nigerians in the telecom area, and working with the execution of DMS following best worldwide practices. 

The activities of this mandate will guarantee that IMEIs of cell phones that have been accounted for as either taken or unlawful are shared through the DMS to all MTN, Globacom, Airtel, 9mobile, and other organization administrators. 

This is relied upon to guarantee that such gadgets don't work regardless of whether diverse SIM cards are embedded.