LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sequel to the information of Anambra residents trading their National Identification Number (NIN) for cash, the management of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has warned Nigerian against selling their NIN to organizations or individual. The warning became necessary as unauthorised individuals or organisations are purportedly asking for the submission of the National…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, has said that Nigerians will require the National Identification Number (NIN) to access social services. He also emphasized that the poor and vulnerable population would need it to benefit from palliatives. The SGF made this statement while declaring open an…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Identity Management Commission has identified over 6,000 Nigeriens registered on its database with the National Identification Number. This was as President Bola Tinubu directed an inter-ministerial committee to ensure comprehensive data for the National Social Register for the Federal Government’s social investment programmes. Impeccable sources in the Presidency told Saturday…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The DG/CEO of NIMC, Engr Abisoye Coker-Odusote, has reiterated the safety and protection of data in its National Identity Database (NIDB) as the country commemorates the National Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Day. Engr Abisoye Coker-Odusote, represented by Engr Lanre Yusuf, Director, Information Technology and Identity Database (IT/IDD) at a press…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crowds of Nigerians have stormed telecommunication stores across Nigeria after telcos began barring following lines not linked with a National Identification Number (NIN) over the weekend. This is in compliance with the Nigerian Communications Commission’s July 31, 2024, deadline for SIM-NIN linkage. Since February 2024, telcos have implemented a phased disconnection of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is reviewing and expanding the National Social Register to accommodate pensioners and ex-servicemen under its Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. It is also removing beneficiaries who have excited the poverty line. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the government was also taking out dead beneficiaries from the register and would disqualify those…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos Lawyer and Human Right Activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has demanded for for the signing of petition from Nigerians for cancellation of National Identity Number (NIN) and the repeal of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC ) Act, 2007 because both have failed to fight crime and instead invaded the privacy…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MTN Nigeria Communication Limited and Airtel Network Nigeria Limited have been dragged before a Lagos Federal High Court Over alleged illegal deactivation of sim cards of over 72 million of Nigerians. Joined alongside the two telecommunication firms in the suit marked FHC/L/CS/677/2022, are; Federal Government of Nigeria and Attorney-General of the Federation…