The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said 95 million Nigerians need to enrol for the National Identification Number (NIN). This was revealed by the Head of Corporate Communications at the commission, Kayode Adegoke, on X over the weekend. According to him, for NIMC to meet the 200 million target by 2025, 95 million Nigerians ...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has unveiled a mobile application for Nigerians to modify their data on the National Identification Number (NIN). With this new app, Nigerians can now make corrections to their name, date of birth, phone numbers on their NIN profile, reports Sunday Vanguard. Before now, Nigerians who wanted to...
A former Managing Director of defunct Daily Times Newspaper, High Chief Tola Adeniyi, has urged the federal government to immediately stop what he described as Patami’s inimical and insidious security breach which mandated citizens to link their NIN and BVN with their telephone numbers. In a statement made available yesterday, the Jagun Oodua ...
A Lagos-based activist and lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has dragged telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria as well as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to a Lagos Federal High Court, challenging the recent barring of phone lines of citizens. Ogungbeje joined Dr. Aminu Maida, the Chief Executive Officer of NCC, and MTN Ni...
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, said yesterday that SIM cards previously linked to the National Identification Numbers, NIN, were barred because they were bad. It also explained that the job of using NIN to track kidnappers currently terrorising the country is that of the police. NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, who explained on Chann...
No fewer than 40 million telephone lines were barred by telecommunication operators over the weekend following the expiration of the February 28, 2024 deadline issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission mandating telecom consumers to link their Subscriber Identity Modules to their National Identity Numbers. This represents a 28 million i...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), today, explained why some telecommunications subscribers who previously linked their SIM cards to their National Identification Numbers (NINs) have their mobile lines barred. NCC spokesman, Reuben Muoka, said “people who probably didn’t get a cleared or verified NIN” have been barred because “the e...
•Applicants for NIN Over 70 million bank customers are at risk of losing access to their accounts when the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive on restricting accounts without Bank Verification Numbers and National Identification Numbers goes into effect. The CBN had on December 1, 2023, in a circular directed that a ‘Post no Debit’ restriction...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has instructed all bank customers to link their National Identification Number (NIN) and Bank Verification Number (BVN) to their bank account (s). The apex bank had in a circular on December 1st 2023, directed that banks should place restrictions on all Tier 1 bank accounts without BVN, reports Vanguard. Tier [&hell...
Confusion reigned in the banking industry yesterday as some banks restricted access to bank accounts not linked to the National Identity Number, as directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The CBN had in a circular on December 1, 2023 directed that banks should place restrictions on all Tier 1 bank accounts without BVN, […]