Some foreigners from Chad, Cameroon, and Niger republic are reportedly being enrolled for the NIN in Nigeria, raising concerns over security implications.


Enrolment centres for National Identity Number (NIN) registration in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, are enrolling foreigners from Chad, Cameroon, and the Niger Republic trapped in the city as a result of the insurgency, HumAngle can report.

An official who has followed this development in the past months informed HumAngle that hundreds of foreigners had been enrolled without immigration screening, which violates the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Act mandating immigration pass for non-Nigerians.

According to the official who did not want his name mentioned, many of the enrolment centres across Maiduguri have no immigration official on sight, allowing foreigners to register at will.

“Registration centres only focus on extorting N2,000 from applicants regardless of their nationality,” he revealed.

Borno State shares a border with three nations:

Cameroon, Chad and the Republic of Niger. Inhabitants of the border communities on both sides share the same ethnicity, further complicating national identity differentiation.

Nigerian Government in Dec. 2020 asked citizens to link their sim cards with their NIN as part of measures to tackle insecurity challenges confronting the country.

The registration has since been extended several times, as many Nigerians complain about overcrowding, slow response and nepotism at enrolment centres.

Ref: https://humangle.ng/foreigners-acquiring-national-id-number-in-northeast-nigeria/

Hope my cousins from Benin, Brazil and Togo are applying please oh.

This is bad. I Know they are doing this because of upcoming elections

Free pass.. for the ones who has been looking for Nigerian citizenship....

Finally Aboki na Aboki....
Of what use is this Nin stuff, if not for Election rigging!!!

You see why I'm tempted to cue into the ideology of those who what to breakaway sometimes

That's normal thing for north

They are also doing it free of charge. While down south here, NIN agents collect nothing less than 2500 naira.
I did mine today and paid 4000 naira. It still took me 5hrs to do it without even collecting the temporary card yet.

Pathetic!!

Biafra las las

So you people don't know the reason why they created this NIN in the first place before.

Please Show us Evidence so that WE CAN SHARE IT TILL ITS REACHED EVERY CORNER OF NIGERIA !

THIS IS CALL TO NATIONAL DUTY !

WE MUST STOP THAT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE



Thank you for the ALERT