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<\/p>\nDirector-General, NIMC, Mr Aliyu Aziz told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on Friday that the process of issuance of the NIN slip was digitally secured.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is always a misconception by many enrollees that the general multipurpose card is what entails identification of an individual.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment and non-governmental agencies as well as service providers should recognise and accept the NIN slip as means of identification in the absence of the card.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Aziz commenced the public for the acceptance of the National Identity Management Systems Project, as NIMC currently had about 33 million records in its database.<\/p>\n
He said there would be an exceptional increase of enrolment when the Digital Identity Ecosystem commenced in January 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Digital Identity Ecosystem is a sustainable system where any of the data collecting government agencies or licensed private agencies can enroll and capture data from citizens and legal residents and send to the NIMC back-end.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving an ecosystem that is sustainable will not interfere with the functions of other agencies; rather it will make the data collection process easier.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs other data collecting agencies will rely on the NIN as the primary means of identification, putting an end to duplication of functions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it will bring an increase in enrolment centres nationwide making the process easier and more accessible,\u201d Aziz said.<\/p>\n
The DG therefore urged the general public to take advantage of the ecosystem and be identified for life.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has asked government and non-governmental agencies to accept the National Identification Number (NIN) slip as a means of identification for Nigerians. Director-General, NIMC, Mr Aliyu Aziz told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on Friday that the process of issuance of the NIN slip was digitally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}