enigmaotr:
You're the goat here if you don't know Mastercard should have no business whatsoever on matters concerning our National Identity. Whether they have access to our data or not.

ISpiksDaTroof: Maybe in your country, not in mine. A billion September 11's can happen everyday for the next 50yrs and we will not surrender our fingerprints or biometrics to the Govt for identification. Nor would we even accept that the entire country will be under one "National I.D card".

ISpiksDaTroof: Can you just stop talking about what you obviously know absolutely NOTHING about?! I just renewed my passport a few weeks ago and all I had to do was mail in my old passport, passport photographs, and my birth certificate. No fingerprints or biometric info required.

obiscolly:
Oyibo-miss-road. Why are you so interested in the affairs of Nigeria if you truly American. Nairaland is a Nigerian forum, so we'll appreciate you get your filthy a$$ out of here and stop spewing trash. No one gives a damn if your surname is Obama.

ISpiksDaTroof: As an American, I bet you anything that aside from the fact that a background check had to be done when I had my job with the Govt, no other entity on earth has my biometric info, yet you clownish Africans are willingly giving it up for free and for no reason.

all4naija:
If the part of the immigration reforms as put forward by John McCain pass the congress it could be possible. There has been plan to do that for years. It is not a new thing. I quite agree with you many Americans would go against it and many would also support it.

TheBigUrban2:

You are gracefully foolish.

Tools like you do not understand the danger of putting all your trust in private companies that will put profit before your welfare.

Secondly, why would a foreign company's logo be on a nigerian document? Is it done in other countries?

ISpiksDaTroof: ROFLMAO You've just willing volunteered yourself for slavery and you don't even know it.

Why are you Africans so slow, mentally?

all4naija:
Lol... You are joking. You do most of the times you have been caught by the police, dude!

ISpiksDaTroof: Smh what the hell are you talking about?

CoolHunk: The US spies on even their closest allies. And the FG somehow contrived to foolishly hand over delicate information to them. The Americans must be laughing at us now. China even outlawed windows 8.

ISpiksDaTroof: Normally, I don't respond to idi*ots,but today is your lucky day...

all4naija: Thank you for your post. Which company handled those biometric identifications? Are those in line with identity theft regarding transaction with a foreign company(credit card)?I read Nigerian money is printed in foreign country so expect those things you talked about to be handled in one form or the other by private company.

Thank you once again.

ISpiksDaTroof: Did you somehow miss the "for free and for no reason" part?

all4naija:
You have said all these things before. It is like we are repeating ourselves. It is a private company and there are terms and agreement to that. It is not easy to released secret information by copmanies to foreigne government as you are trying to make it looks like. Unless they are willing to give it out on excuses that their security system has been breached.

I don't so much see anything wrong in it having master card on board with Nigerian ID card. If Nigerians feel it's a wrong notion to have this done then they are possibly going the wrong way to modernize. There is even a plan to have the social security card in the USA biometric.

E-payment is evolving rapidly in Asia yet Nigerians are complaining here. It ease the process of transaction. The identification part of the card is not going to be handled by master card but by the Nigerian government. Why don't you look at it from that perspective?

arresa:

The process is completely state driven with zero private involvement and capturing and storing bio-metrics is not rocket science.. All you need is trained staff to take images and store them in your database with accompanying info including prints from all ten fingers..

Their system is based on Oracle Biometrics & Identity management Software System.


Even Osun state rolled out ID system for state employees with Biometrics which was done by Charms Plc.

And what's the meaning of ID theft regarding credit card? Any system is vulnerable in today's tech age. Major American banks and institutions gets hacked everyday.

bongolistik: stop lafin nd rolin urself on d floor cos u wil get dirty. D only tin dat u shuld b sayin here is dat dey Nigerian govment shuldnt hav made it a payment card too, simple

SirShymex:

Lol, I forgot you're a coon. Why am I wasting my time on you? Making you see facts will amount to telling nocturnal animals, like bats, to see clearly during daylight. You're still my favourite half-neanderthal though.

Anyway, how would the verification process be done in transactions without Mastercard having a database of the people's biometric data?

Go to bed.

Lol... I have always been a bat, you know. That is the basic reason I can see in the dark more than you can. Bwahaha... .

Even without the biometric ID card a person who wants to use mastercard information will still be provided to the company and it would be as good as the biometric.

all4naija:
If you have American passport then you have your fingerprint down the government database.

ISpiksDaTroof: Ok, ure clearly an idi.ot. Speak on what you know.

all4naija:
Lol... I have always been a bat, you know. That is the basic reason I can see in the dark more than you can. Bwahaha... .

Even without the biometric ID card a person who wants to use master card information will still be provided to the company and it would be as good as the biometric.

SirShymex:

Lol, don't bet on that - I see clearly both during the day and night. Kind of like a golden eagle mixed with cat!

Anyway, it's not like I'm ever going to get the idi.otic thing - I don't need it for anything. But it's just a pity seeing black slave owners sell spooks for porridge, yet the same undiscerning slaves will come up tomorrow to cry western imperialism. Must every darn thing be privatised?

GEJ's administration is reminiscent of Yeltsin the drunkard's Russia. I won't be surprised if Nigerians are already eating out of garbage cans, with the destructive extreme capitalism and lack of foresight of this administration.

all4naija:
I completely disagree with your views!

Thank you , bro!

BadBoy25: ahahaha slaves!! you have signed your life away . you are now owned by mastercard .

all4naija: You are looking at it from one side of the coin. The other side is on the card storage itself. That can be as good as what you have on the government database. You keep pointing to rocket science as if that will make your statement more assertive. I am not so much ignorance of e-identity as you think though.

The identification part of the card is not going to be handled by master card but by the Nigerian government. Why don't you look at it from that perspective?

SirShymex:

Well, Uncle Tom will always disagree with a rebellious free black man.

And like Harriet Tubman said: "I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

Check yourself - not all the glitter is gold.