Aside from BVN, there are other key data systems in Nigeria.
Some of these are the Drivers Licence, issued by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Tax Identification Number (TIN) and the International Passport Number.
Others include professional licences like medical practice licence, pharmacology, nursing licence, teachers’ registration licence and engineering licence, among others.
According to the minister, his office was leading the initiative.
And the key reason for the migration of all databases to NIN is the fact that NIN is backed by law.
He said there is the need to replace BVN with NIN because the BVN is a bank policy but NIN is a law.
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What Pantami said about BVN, NIN
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ali Pantami has explained the positions and difference between the Bank Verification Number, BVN, and the National Identity Number, NIN.
The Minister stated this while briefing the press at the end of facility tour and inspection of the ongoing NIN enrolement exercise at NIMC and other designated centres across the country.
He explained that he had made a presentation to the National Economic Sustainability Committee and drew the attention of CBN Governor that we need to replace BVN with NIN because the BVN is a bank policy, while NIN is a law because it has been established by law, noting that ‘‘the strength of the law wherever you go is not the same with a policy of one institution.”
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Concerns have been raised for a long time over the lack of data as well as duplicity of available biometric data of Nigerians. For instance, the Nigerian Communications Commission (Registration of Telephone Subscribers) Regulations, 2011 makes it mandatory for mobile telephone service licensees to capture and register biometric information (facial images and fingerprints) and other personal information and transmit the subscriber’s such information to a central database. Proxy registration is prohibited. This central database is managed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) but remains the property of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was the violation of a section of this regulation that got MTN a N1.04 trillion fine in 2016. To obtain a new driver’s licence and renew an existing licence, applicants are required among other steps to ‘proceed to the FRSC Officer at the Driver’s
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For the third consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn’s ninth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review.
Like many recent years, 2020 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union (“
EU”):
CJEU” or “
Court”) struck down as legally invalid the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, on which some companies relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. While companies are turning to other frameworks to transfer personal data, such as Standard Contract Clauses (“