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Heritage Sekibo
ICT

BVN has not been able to address issues around identity mgt—Heritage Bank

Managing Director and chief executive of Heritage Bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo , has opened up saying even though the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced Bank Verification Number (BVN), in reality, has been able to create a form of identification…

Mastercard 33
ICT

How Mastercard failed Chams contract to deliver National ID card—Aladekomo

For many Nigerians that had been asking questions after struggling to register for their national identity Card, the reason why there had been no clear explanation by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on when they will get their real…

Dangote speaking
ICT

NIMC takes Dangote’s NIN slip to his office in Lagos, gets his endorsement

As part of renewed drive to deepen awareness and national campaign for Nigerians and mainly high net worth individuals to get enrolled, the management of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has visited President of Dangote group, Aliko Dangote in his…

Multiple ID system hindering effective credit delivery –Ghanaian expert

At a time the Director General of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engineer Aliyu Aziz had been crusading the need for all Nigerian to go and register for his or her National Identity Number (NIN); a lead to national ID…

NIMC links
ICT

NIMC’ll save annual loss of N610bn by agencies’ from biometric duplication

Indication has emerged showing that all things being equal, by the time the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) completes the harmonization of biometric data of Nigerians from other federal agencies, the country will seize to lose about $2bn (N610bn at…