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…
Like Nigeria, Ghana says no passport from 2018 without national ID
Barely two months after the Head of Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in collaboration with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said effective January 2018, no application for International Passport without National Identity Number (NIN), will be attended to, Ghanaian Minister…
Nigeria’s population grows 7m yearly—NIMC boss, Aziz
The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Aliyu Aziz, has disclosed that Nigerian’s population in now growing at a rate of seven million yearly. Explaining issues bordering on the slow pace of registration for the National Identification…
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…
‘Only an Act of parliament can enforce denial of financial services without NIN’
Disquiet has continued to trail the recent pronouncement by the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engineer Aliyu Aziz that Nigerians yet to register and get their National Identification Number (NIN) stand the chance of being denied…
Come 2018, applicants for new passport, permit renewal must have NIN
In line with the growing awareness for the National Identity Number (NIN), driven by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), from January next year, applicants without NIN will not access international passport (IPP). The announcement was renewed during a recent…
NIMC driving NIN awareness to fast track national identity database, harmonisation
The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engineer Aliyu Aziz, has warned that any Nigerian without the National Identification Number (NIN) issued by the commission runs the risk of being regarded as a non-Nigerian citizen. Addressing a world…
