The issuing authority for National Identity, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has directed that all transactions involving the identification of individuals must be done with the National Identification Number (NIN) beginning from 1st September this year. The Commission has therefore urged on all Nigerians to avail themselves the opportunity of enrolment into the National Identity Database and be issued a National Identification Number (NIN), which is the single version of truth and the foundation identity.

Pursuant to section 27 (1) and (2) of the NIMC Act, 2007,  the Commission said these transactions, include: application for, and issuance of an International Passport; opening of individual and/or group bank accounts, all consumer credits; purchase of insurance policies; the purchase, transfer and registration of land by any individual; National Health Insurance Scheme, such transactions that have social security implications, registration of voters, payment of taxes, and pensions, etc. In a statement yesterday, the Commission’s General Manager, Inspectorate, Regulatory & Compliance Services, Mrs. Hadiza Dagabana said, “any  government agency/institution, bank, insurance company and all other institutions offering services and/or involved in transactions requiring the identity of an individual must first demand for the NIN.  Any individual, institutions/body who fails to comply with the above has committed an offence under the punishable under section 28 of the NIMC Act,”

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