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The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) Kashifu Inuwa has canvassed for the creation of Ministry of Digital Economy in all states of the federation to complement various efforts and initiatives of the Federal Government. The NITDA’s boss made this remark in Ibadan, Oyo State at the just …

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has approved the setting up of a National Identity Number (NIN) enrolment centre at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The desk will be set up by Tuesday, 19th of January, 2021. This enrolment centre will provide support …

The National Identity Management Commission on Wednesday said about 11 million Bank Verification Numbers (BVNs) had been harmonised with National Identification Numbers (NIN). NIMC also disclosed that 42 million Nigerians now have unique identity numbers while declaring that the commission is currently registering about 500,000 people every month for National …

A civil society organisation, Laws and Rights Awareness Initiative, has asked the Federal High Court in Abeokuta to stop the digital identification cards being introduced by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC to replace the plastic national ID cards. The suit followed NIMC’s recent announcement that it was dumping plastic …

The Federal Government has announced that it was opting for a digital national identification card instead of the present plastic card. By this development, the registration number issued by NIMC to a registrant, and not the plastic card, will now be the recognized means of identifying any Nigerian captured in …

Nigeria is making progress to reverse the United States suspension of the issuance of “immigrant visa” to Nigerian passport holders, President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Abuja. Receiving the report of the committee on Citizen Data Management and Harmonization chaired by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, the President expressed …