How to Check Glo Number in Nigeria, With or Without Airtime
Glo publishes no USSD code for your own number. The check that works is free, needs a second phone and goes through on a zero balance.
Flash another phone from the Glo line, and the number on its missed call is yours. Glo’s Beep Call Service lets a line with a low or empty balance do this to any Nigerian number, so you do not need airtime.
- Put the Glo SIM in a phone. On a dual-SIM phone, choose the Glo SIM for the call.
- Dial the second phone, let it ring once or twice, and hang up.
- Open the missed call on the second phone. That is your number: 11 digits, or +234 in place of the first 0.
- Save it as a contact on the Glo phone, under your own name.
The second phone can be on any Nigerian network. With airtime on the line, a normal call does the same job, and so does a text, which shows your number as the sender and costs ₦6. Glo lists no keyword you can text to get your number, so that is as close as an SMS method comes.
The USSD code people look for
Glo does not publish one. Nothing on its website gives a code, a short number or a text keyword that shows your own number, and the Nigerian Communications Commission’s list of shared short codes has none for this either.
The nearest thing is *301#, which Glo calls the one code for everything on your line. It needs no internet and works on any phone, so an iPhone or a button phone will do. Glo’s page for it lists data, recharges, tariff plans, borrowing and subscriptions, and does not mention your number, so open it and read what is there today.
Other websites print several codes for this, and they do not agree with each other. We are leaving them out because none can be traced to Glo. Should you try one anyway, read the screen before replying to anything, as a code nobody can vouch for may open a paid menu. Then check the answer on a second phone.
If the second phone shows no number
“Private” or a blank caller on the other phone means your number is being withheld. Glo’s Missed Call Alert page mentions Caller ID Barring as a setting that does this. Ask customer care how to lift it on your line.
When the flash call will not go through on an empty line, load a small recharge and make a normal call. Glo’s Beep Call page dates from 2021, so we cannot promise it behaves the same on every line today.
A call that fails even with airtime points to the line itself. Dial *996#, which Glo’s NIN page says replies with a text saying whether your line is linked to a NIN. If it says you have not linked one, take your NIN to a Gloworld, a Glozone or another SIM registration outlet. Glo says registering is free.
Customer care is 300 from the Glo line, listed as toll-free on Glo’s contact page. From another network, the number is +234 805 002 0121 for prepaid and +234 805 002 0200 for postpaid. Glo does not say an agent will read your number out, so ask.
Looking on the phone itself
On an iPhone, Apple’s help page points to Settings, then Apps, then FaceTime, where your number appears under “You can be reached by FaceTime at”. Most Android phones list it under Settings, then About phone.
Treat either as a hint. The phone shows what it has stored, and a new SIM may have stored nothing, so a blank or an old number proves little. The missed call on a second phone is the proof.
Glo Café, and a SIM in a router
Glo’s app, Glo Café, is free on Google Play and the App Store, and Glo says it lets you check your NIN, your PUK and your transactions. It does not say which screen shows your number, and Glo says the first sign-in asks for a one-time code, which makes the app more useful on a phone already signed in. If yours is, look in your profile.
A SIM in a router or MiFi cannot ring anybody, so move it to a phone for a minute and use the flash call. Glo’s self-care site, hsi.glo.com, is meant to open on a Glo SIM’s data, but Glo describes it for buying data and checking data balance, with no mention of your number.
Keep the card your SIM came in
Glo’s website does not say whether the number is printed on the card, so if you see one there, confirm it with a flash call. Keep the card either way. Glo calls it the SIM certificate and accepts it as proof of ownership at a Gloworld shop if the SIM is ever lost, along with a valid ID. A purchase receipt, or a police report with a sworn affidavit, does the same job.
For the other networks, we have pages on how to check your MTN number and how to check your Airtel number.
