By Adeyemi Adepetun

• Compulsory for passport, bank accounts,
others

FROM September 1, the National Identity Number (NIN) shall become mandatory for all transactions involving the identification of individuals in the country.

To that end, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), which is in charge of NIN issuance, has urged Nigerians to avail themselves the opportunity of enrolling in the national identity database to get their NIN.

In a statement yesterday, NIMC General Manager, Corporate Communications, Abdulhamid Umar, said the agency has been advertising in some national dailies that the use of NIN shall become mandatory all transactions offered by applicable government institutions from September 1.

According to the commission, these transactions, pursuant to section 27 (1) and (2) of the NIMC Act, 2007 include application for, and issuance of International Passport, opening of individual and/or group bank accounts.

Also affected are all consumer credits, purchase of insurance policies, purchase, transfer and registration of land by any individual, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), such transactions that have social security implications, registration of voters, payment of taxes and pensions, among others.

“Consequently, any government agency/institution, bank, insurance company and all other institutions offering services and/or involved in transactions requiring the identity of an individual must first demand for the NIN,” NIMC General Manager, Inspectorate, Regulatory and Compliance Services, Mrs. Hadiza Dagabana said.

“Any individual, institutions/body who fails to comply with the above has committed an offence punishable under section 28 of the NIMC Act.”

The commission urged citizens to appreciate the full import of the NIMC mandate and understand that the three-decades-old problem of identity management in Nigeria has been fixed since 2012 by NIMC’s unique identification infrastructure and the subsequent launch of the National e-ID Card scheme in 2014.

On the importance of NIN, NIMC General Manager, Information Technology/Identity Database, Chuks Onyepunuka, explained: “Clearly, most people are unable to appreciate the shift in paradigm from ‘Card Issuance,’ their familiar turf, to ‘Identity Management,’ the current global trend, which explains why they insist on getting the physical card even after they have been enrolled and issued their NIN.

“NIMC is focused on establishing ‘foundation identity’ (who you are) as the issuing authority for Nigeria, while all other institutions, including the banks and INEC, are focused on ‘functional identity’ (whether you are eligible for a specific service).” Onyepunuka emphasised that functional identities established pursuant to various organisations’ databases, such as the Bank Verification Number (BVN) and Taxpayer Identification Number, among others, are not substitute for NIN.

“Therefore, citizens must ensure that they are enrolled into the National Identity Database (NIDB) by September 1, the effective date of commencement of the mandatory use of NIN.”

The agency disclosed that there are about 404 enrolment centres nationwide, and that cards were currently been issued in the state offices across the nation and that the Federal Capital Territory, adding that the exercise would be hastened as soon as the commission scales up its facilities and infrastructure.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/national-identity-number-mandatory-from-september/

They should also make September the deadly to issue cards to those that registered over the years.

#i/need/my/card/not/NIN

Useless commission, got registered in 2013, up till now no card has been produced. They also wasted billions of tax payer fund on a farce recruitment which produces no result.

Realdeals:
Useless commission, got registered in 2013, up till now no card has been produced.

lolz

For the past 2years I got registered with no ID card and the commission has the guts to be giving nigerians deadline.

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Realdeals:
Useless commission, got registered in 2013, up till now no card has been produced. They also wasted billions of tax payer fund on a farce recruitment which produces no result.

Na so I seeam oh

Please I request that this information should move to FP. It is an important information for all Nigerians.


Cc: Lalasticlala

suddenly suddenly all dis yeye commissions don de work up to their duties

registred since 2013 also buh uptill now nufin to show for it....

i smell kwaraption

Blah blah blah

Na by force? Useless commissioners, managers & directors just full evrywher.

The same bleeping NIMC riddled with corruption is now giving deadlines.. smh

These guys are an epitome of inefficiency.

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Realdeals:
Useless commission, got registered in 2013, up till now no card has been produced. They also wasted billions of tax payer fund on a farce recruitment which produces no result.

Same with me. It is a shame that since 2013 when I registered, they have not been able to print or issue me the card.

These people are really learning from us, I wrote about this in my frontpage article!

The process is slow and it seems the management is incompetent as compared with the implementation of the BVN, but it should be implemented by law so that we have a unique ID system in Nigeria.

With your National ID, you should qualify for certain incentives like loans, overdraft etc, it would be mandatorily needed by banks as soon as it is implemented, so that they will tie every person to their accounts nationwide. Banks will even stop asking for collateral for certain amounts of money because you can no longer run with their money and if you do, they already know where you went to because the system is also tied to your international passport, drivers license etc and once you leave the country, they know where you are and they will easily write to the host country that you're a fugitive

Also, once you're arrested by the police, the first thing they do is take your thumbprint and your details come up immediately, that offense is recorded and your crime history is easily available to law enforcement to track you and invite you for questioning when you are spotted within a location where a crime is committed, that's the system used abroad to draw up a list of suspects when a crime has no face on it

Also, before you rent a house, your landlord gives you a form and requests your Identity which he uses to run a background check with the authorities to know if you have outstanding criminal cases like child abuse (in case he has kids that could be vulnerable).
Before you get a job, get admission into school, run for a political appointment, get a loan from the bank or lending company etc, a bankground check is done with your identity

It has been long overdue in a country like Nigeria having serious security issues and abuse of office and power issues.

ok

oshiosense:
Same with me. It is a shame that since 2013 when I registered, they have not been able to print or issue me the card.

Same with me, I registered since January 2013 as I speak, I havent received any message for the card collection.

I enrolled for it since Feb. but no NIN yet, I was only given a transaction slip.

@Udstar insert source please
Cc: Lalasticlala

God fuckkkk 'em,I registered in2013 up till now,no dang Card. Obi Mikel is even faster$sharper then 'em.

Registered in 2013, this is 2015 and I still don't have a card. Well, it's Nigeria. We all know how seriously they take deadlines. Anyone remembers FRSC with the new license plate thingy? I'm not even bothered.

Realdeals:
Useless commission, got registered in 2013, up till now no card has been produced. They also wasted billions of tax payer fund on a farce recruitment which produces no result.

See vexation on this thread

Oka

I am not a Nigerian tho. But I think they will use it for the 5000 naira unempolyment payment.

What of the BVN? Why duplication of registrations on daily basis? Guess we have voters card, drivers license, National ID Card, BVN, etc. Hmmm.

Please check my signature too. Thanks.

Gotten the paper one.Waiting for the plastic.or is there none

Ok .....

I hear una