(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - An ex-governor of Kaduna State, Col Abubakar Umar (retd.); a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ahmed Raji, SAN, and some civil society organisations have called for the suspension of the plan by the Federal Government to conduct a population census next year. They asked the government to focus attention on the insecurity in
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES), which provides undergraduates and graduates with a
Background
On 15 December 2020, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)
directed that all phone Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) should
be registered with valid National Identification Numbers (NINs)
failing which such SIMs will be blocked. The National
Identification Management Commission ( NIMC or Commission ) confirmed that the NIN registration applied
to all Nigerians and legal residents in Nigeria as provided under
the NIMC Act of 2007. Section 5 of the NIMC Act of 2007 empowers
NIMC to create a national database, harmonise existing ones and
register eligible persons.
In line with this, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has
indicated that its database will be harmonised with the NIMC s
Nigeria’s ID regulator has explained why owners of National Identification Number otherwise called NIN, generated from BVN, cannot use them for linking SIM and NIN records.
A number of BVN owners who discovered that NIN has been automatically generated for them without enrolment took for granted that it would be the same experience with the pairing of their SIM records for the mandatory SIM+NIN linking ordered by Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy.
But they were wrong as National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says that owners of NIN generated from BVN are required to have their biometric information captured at an enrolment centre before they can link same to their SIM records.