Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, says the national identification number (NIN) is compulsory for transactions such as bank account opening, payment of taxes and voter registration.

Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, he said the government is determined to ensure that all citizens have NIN.

Pantami quoted section 27 of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) act as stating that benefitting from government services as a citizen without NIN is an offence punishable by imprisonment.

“This is most important in the area of NIN, which is a mandatory number, based on the NIMC order of 2007 that has actively been neglected for years, ” he said.

“It is key to our national planning, budget, security, social development and many more. But it was neglected despite being a mandatory number.

“So we’ve come up with so many policies trying to ensure that our citizens obtain the number. It is important beyond SIM registration. It is important for whatever you do because it is the primary identity of our citizens.

“There’s no identity that will define you as a citizen more than that number. It is mandatory. And it is mandatory for transactions such as opening bank accounts, paying tax, voter registration and many more.”

The minister had said the government may replace the bank verification number (BVN) with the NIN.

There is currently an April 6 deadline for all telecommunication network subscribers to link their SIM cards with their NIN or get disconnected.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) recently announced that the NIN is compulsory for all categories of vehicle registration.

Topmaike007:
sense won't kill you

Topmaike007:
happy val oo,I hope things are going well

aribisala0:

Saner climes?
Name ONE just one such saner clime where that is happening today?
You folk just mouth off as if you are in a village square

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Kool

OmovuduTheBeast:

SHARAAAP!

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More on NIN that Sane, good, honest and hardworking Nigerians should know.....

Nigerians home and abroad , kindly take note!

Imagine you walk into an Immigration office to apply for an international passport.
You are asked for information verifying your identity and you just give them a number and instantly the Immigration officials connect to the National Identity Database – all your required information appears on their computer screen.
They can only see information they are authorised to see.
Done, your identity is verified – no need to go get extra documents, spend more money, just to prove who you are.
That is the convenience provided by your NIN.
This is synonymous with Social Security Number (SSN), if you don't have that in some countries abroad, you will just be living like a corpse, without being able to do anything in life, a corpse will even be better than your as$! 
It’s the same thing when you go to process a driver’s licence, you would only need to present your NIN and your identity would be verified.

This is how it is done in saner climes we all want to emulate.
We will surely get there someday soon.

God bless Nigeria.

JosephXavier:
Do BVN we do.Do NIN, we do your NIN with your SIM cards, we did

Give us jobs, they said no.We got job through crypto and they banned it.Give us good governance, they said the youths are lazy.We protested and they dehumanised and locked us up.Is this government for the people or against the people?