Just in: How JAMB relied on BHIU report to suspend NIN for 2020 UTME
Rewind to Wednesday, January 8, 2020, we published a research report by Business Hilights Intelligence Unit (BHIU) captioned: https://businesshilights.com.ng/jamb-to-record-less-than-400000-candidates-this-year-due-to-nin-challenge/, and at the very last paragraph of the report, we said “Accordingly, BHIU is therefore calling for two way out; a…
JAMB to record less than 400,000 candidates this year due to NIN challenge
As the registration the 2020 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) entrance for students seeking admissions into tertiary institutions including universities and others begins soon and to last for two weeks, investigations by Business Hilights Intelligence Unit (BHIU) show that…
NIMC’s NIN: Poor awareness, access dim 2018 target of 78m to distant 38m now
Strong indications have emerged showing that the original performance target of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in driving National Identification Number (NIN) registration in the country since 2016 has failed. This was discovered when latest revelation from the Director-General…
Nigeria needs digital ID platform linked to functional ID registries—NIMC
The Director-General, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Aliyu Aziz, has stressed that for Nigeria to enhance governance, help its people out of poverty, restore growth, and participate in the digital economy, “we need a unique digital identification platform that is…
NIMC boss, Aziz redefines digital divide, says digital identity key to growth
The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Aliyu Aziz, has argued that the definition of the term ‘digital divide’ as “patterns of unequal access to ICT based on income, race, ethnicity, gender, age and geography that surfaced during…
See NIMC’s NIN Slip as official transaction identity document, Reps tells CBN, other
As part of official drive to encourage Nigerians to go for their National Identification Number (NIN) slip at the designated centres mapped out by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the leadership of House of Representative has urged the Central…
NIMC targets 50m Nigerians in NIN before year end with 900 centres—Aziz
As part of new drive to deepen the databank of biometrics of Nigerian, the management of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has set out modalities to capture well over 50 million Nigerians on its ongoing registration for the National…
Can Nigeria’s national ID card, GhanaCard schemes become reality this year?
Whereas Ghana’s national ID card project known as GhanaCard is being touted to begin this January 2018, after missing two takeoff dates, investigations on Nigeria’s national ID scheme which took off since last administration and still crawling now show that…
Attorney General approves mandatory use of NIN as NIMC gazettes regulation
As part of concreted drive by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to deepen the value of National Identity Number (NIN), it has gazetted and published five (5) Regulations. The gazetting stemmed from the express approval received from the Attorney…
NIMC ups NIN registration centres to 809 nationwide, insists no NIN no passport
The leadership of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has announced the increment of registration centres across the nation to 809 points as part of efforts to ease access to Nigerians to get their National Identity Number (NIN). In a recent…
