Buhari Government Orders Commercial Banks To Issue National Identity, NIN Cards To Nigerians

Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economic system, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, announcing the issuance comes without payment.
 

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian authorities has stated that Nigerians can now set aside a query to their commercial banks to order them with a debit card that doubles as their national identification card.
Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economic system, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, announcing the issuance comes without payment.
SaharaReporters had final week reported how Pantami became once furthermore lobbying to carry out some final-minute contracts to feather his nest before the Could per chance well 29 handing over.
SaharaReporters had exclusively reported that Pantami and Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf, Buhari’s personal secretary, allegedly colluded to grant licences for broadcast frequencies in the 600MHz spectrum band by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in the twilight of the Buhari administration.
SaharaReporters had learnt that Pantami and Yusuf would grant such licences to companies linked to their cronies and colleagues in the Aso Rock Villa, cabals, besides to a shut ally of the “president-elect”, Bola Tinubu.
In the intervening time, on the NIN to be issued by banks, Pantami acknowledged that the approval became once received at the meeting of the Federal Government Council, which became once presided over by Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He stated the approval adopted a memo from the National Id Administration Commission permitting banks to print multipurpose debit cards that double as National identification cards.
The Minister outlined that” It’ll be a accomplish of multipurpose card the assign this is in a position to per chance well abet as your national identification card on one hand and furthermore your bank card on the replacement hand, either Mastercard, Visa or another form of card.”
In accordance with Pantami, even although the NIMC Act 2007 entirely mandates Nigerians to agree with a National Id Number and now now not basically a printout card, demands for cards agree with swelled alternatively.
“As in the NIMC Act 2007, share 27, what is significant for our electorate and prison residents is the shopping of the National Id Number, now now not the cardboard. On the replacement hand, the cardboard is optional.
“So if you occur to apply for a card at your bank, you might perhaps per chance well have the selection to fresh that ‘I need this card to be extra than one capabilities the assign this is in a position to per chance well abet as my bank card and furthermore my national identification card’.
”Both of them are going to be printed on the the same card and it’ll abet the the same capabilities without any extra prices.”
The Minister disclosed that NIMC and the CBN signed a nondisclosure agreement to provide protection to the privacy and confidentiality of card applicants. He assured of the privacy and confidentiality of card users.
Pantami extra acknowledged that, when a particular person requests for the cardboard, the bank will wish to hook up with the NIMC thru their database.
He stated that afterwards, the bank verifies the actual person’s runt print which must be in tandem with the file in the NIMC database. Then, the cardboard will seemingly be printed straight away for the user.
The Minister furthermore stated that FEC furthermore licensed a memo proposing the deployment of an automatic system to mix NINs with particular particular person SIM cards.
The system, he eminent, would consolidate the implementation of the NIN-SIM linkage.