I think the government should make it possible for every Nigerian to be able to register and validate NIN over the internet with their personal systems or phones.

I don't feel very safe having third parties have access to my bio data linked to my accounts. Once someone has access to your bvn, nin and a plethora of all your other details, what's to stop them not to attempt to hack your account? More like making them co-signatories to your account.

What's more unsettling is even that the fellow at the local government council, handling nin enrollment, asked for the bank I use in the course of conversation.

Imagine. Two different persons privy to all my data. One is doing enrollment, the other is doing registration and validation.

Something that one could easily do with phone camera and phone fingerprint scanner. Then government would have the data doubly encrypted.

Compromised data at point of registration could be behind illegal funds transfers from people's bank accounts.

This stuff is worrying me no sh!t.


Here is thread about about NiN registration yesterday:

https://www.nairaland.com/7632848/one-supposed-pay-nin-registration

I had this similar discussion with someone some days ago.
The government should make it available to register from the comfort of one's home.

Afterall, fingerprints and facial recognition is available.
Uploading all necessary details and documents too will be easier.

Only that, some foreigners might take advantage of that situation to infiltrate and register as a Nigerian, unless their faces can be detected as a non Nigerian.

BVN should be able to help with the case of foreigners registering.

I feel really unsafe that such persons as I mentioned should have access to all of my data like that.

Naija na scam on a regular day. It won’t shock me if this occurs. Stay alert to avoid touching stories.