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National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has on Tuesday, January 11 debunked claim of the country’s identity database being breached by hackers. Director-General of NIMC, Engr. Aliyu Aziz in a statement released on Tuesday January…

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has proposed a fine of N200,000 for telecommunications companies that fail to verify and validate biometric, National Identity Number (NIN) and other personal information of subscribers. The…

Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for National Identity Number (NIN)-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data verification to October 31, 2021. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by Ikechukwu…

Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM card linkage till June 30, 2021. It would be recalled that previous deadline given by the Federal Government in April was extended  one month (from April 6,…

Federal Government has extended the deadline for linking Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM) with valid National Identity Numbers (NIN) by one month. It announced the extension on Friday in a joint statement issued in Abuja by the…

Federal Government has extended the deadline of linkage of National Identity Number (NIN) to SIM cards by 8 weeks. It would be recalled that on December 15, Federal Government declared that after December 30, all SIMs that were not…

Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) on Wednesday said the deadline for Nigerians to link their National Identity Number to the SIM cards has been extended till February 9. On December 15, 2020, Federal…

Federal Government has said National Identity Numbers is mandatory for diplomats, adding that an enrolment centre has been established for such persons at Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The development was disclosed by Minister of…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the transfer of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The approval for the transfer was based on the President’s…

Federal Government has announced plans to replace the issuance of plastic national identity cards with digital forms of identification, in line with global practice. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this on…

In line with Federal Government directive, the implementation of mandatory usage of the National Identification Number (NIN) takes effect from today, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has announced. At its meeting on…

Recently, the National Identity Management Commission Act, 2007 enacted the Mandatory Use of the National Identification Number Regulations, 2017. The Regulations were made in order to aid successful transactions and easy access to…