National ID Card Registration Deadline Shifted
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has moved the commencement date for the compulsory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) from September 1, 2015 to January 9, 2016.
The commission had said earlier that all transactions involving the identification of individuals as specified in Section 27 of the NIMC Act must be done with the NIN, beginning from September 1, 2015.
However Abdulhamid Umar, the spokesman of NIMC, explained that the extension of the date was due to the recent directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, that all ministries, departments and
agencies (MDAs) should harmonise their biometric databases.
The extension would allow the commission progress further, ongoing efforts with the MDAs that have reached advanced stages of harmonisation with NIMC, including the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN), Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), PenCom, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), NHIS, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, (FMARD).
According to The Cable, the commission has also concluded plans to provide pre-enrolment services on smart phones, as it will ensure that citizens start their enrollment using their smart phones. This development would ensure that in the next couple of months citizens, of all ages, would have completed their demographic enrollment before they proceed to NIMC enrollment centres for their biometric data capture to complete their enrollment.
NIMC months ago, had announced that it would start to enforce the use of the NIN by citizens in the conduct of certain transactions as specified in Section 27 of the NIMC Act, 2007.
NIN is an 11-digit number assigned to an individual upon successful enrollment into the national identity database (NIDB).
It is what represents the unique entry of a person’s personal information in the national identity database. Once issued to an individual, the number cannot be used again.
Umar also added that management had “expressed satisfaction with the ongoing distribution of the national eID cards and increasing appreciation of the fact that it is both a KYC card and a payment card”.
Meanwhile Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, August 25, in Abuja, got registered by the officials of NIMC, to enable him to obtain his national identity card.
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