Dear NIMC,

I appreciate your continuous efforts to keep and harmonize a national database and identity of millions of Nigerians, and I acknowledge that challenges abound that may try to undermine all efforts in doing so.

I'll not try to stress much on these issues I noticed on the aforementioned topic here on Nairaland, but I'll do well to list some of them in order to put you on the right path, save time for millions of Nigerians and ensure the process, experiences and endeavour is a seamless one.

1. Payment for renewal and replacement: this payment may be justified at some level because of the nature of card production and other logistics involved, hence not much can be said here except for the fact that millions of Nigerians are extremely poor and may not be able to afford this amount for renewal and/or replacement. Please kindly reevaluate your cost and find ways to bring such fee payable to the minimal level.

2. Fees payable for correction of date of birth, address and other sensitive data: I've gone through numerous releases from your organization as to what it entails to get certain things done but the cost of correcting address and other data may eventually backfire and thwart your ability to capture and keep relevant data of citizens and legal aliens. For example, if Taiwo (from Ekiti) did his registration in Ondo when he went for NYSC and eventually got a job in Abuja, it means that whether he used his Ondo or Ekiti address, his current data will be incomplete because of his subsequent movements and having to pay each time for address field update is irrational to a hustling Nigerian.

Also, when a woman marries, and when she chooses to, will have to cough out more to pay for name change, address change and any other change required for her to be fully captured and updated on your database. Also, when crisis occur like divorce or death, remarriage, any other possible social dynamic, each will attract a field alteration and a fee as well.

My personal takes, you must remove those fees in order to woo Nigerians to make one-stop in any NIMC offices nationwide to submit sensitive information that may be subject of frequent change.

If you must keep 100% information about Nigerians, then you must be willing to give them 110% reasons why they must walk in and freely submit these information.

Thank you.

@lalasticlala
@mynd44
@seun
@dominique

Nobody care to listen.

I'll be paying that fees soonest too

lalasticlala mynd44 seun dominique e.t.c. Please bring this to the front page. The worst part of the whole thing, is that it takes more than a month for such corrections to reflect on their portal even after such exorbitant fees have been made. Shame!!

What of change of Phone number.

Wickedness raised to power ten by incompetent government agency that had failed repeatedly

National Identity Card offices should be scrapped and National population commission should take over the job of registering and printing of cards

verolamilayo:
I am having problems on my NIN wrong date of birth DOB needs correction modification

Mods, @Seun, @Mynd44, can you please stop the flooding of NIN posts/adverts to the first page of the politics section.

Change of Address and renewal of aging passport photographs should not attract any fees.

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The National Identity Management Commission has said that over 500,000 national identity cards for those who enrolled in 2022 are ready for collection.NIMC Spokesman, Loveday Ogbonna, urged enrollees in the year 2022, up to August 2023 and who were yet to pick up their cards , to do so immediately.

The National Identity Management Commission has said that the national identification number verification service portal has been fully restored. This was made known by its head of corporate communications, Kayode Adegoke, in a statement made available to the press