NIN Required to Access Trade Grant – FG The Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment has directed applicants of the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme to submit their National Identification Numbers, NIN, as part of the necessary requirements to obtain a grant earmarked to cushion the...

NIN-SIM Linkage Policy Reduces Nigeria' Mobile Subscriptions to 218M   In January this year, active mobile service subscriptions in Nigeria dropped by over 6 million to 218 million as telecom operators complied with the regulator's directive to ban SIM cards. The latest industry data released by the...

NIN-SIM Linkage Policy Reduces Nigeria' Mobile Subscriptions to 218M   In January this year, active mobile service subscriptions in Nigeria dropped by over 6 million to 218 million as telecom operators complied with the regulator's directive to ban SIM cards. The latest industry data released by the...

FG Suspends Third-party Agents From NIN Registration The National Identity Management Commission has temporarily suspended Front-End Partners from engaging in the National Identification Number enrolments. This is because the commission is currently carrying out a revalidation exercise of these third-party registration centres. The Director General, NIMC, Abisoye...

NIN: NIMC Targets Children for Enrolment   The Lamido of Adamawa, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu Mustafa, has commended the management of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) over its successes in the registration of Nigerians for the National Identity Number (NIN). The monarch, who...

Nigerians in Diaspora with NIN Rises to 25% in May The percentage of diasporan Nigerians with National Identification Numbers rose to 25.17 per cent in May 2023. The National Identity Management Commission has registered 427,962 diasporan Nigerians since it launched its diaspora enrolment exercise in 2019. There...