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The National Identity Management Commission has noticed with great dismay an erroneous and malicious news report published in the Nigerian Tribune of June 7, 2022, with the deceptive and misleading headline: Did NIMC Lose NIN Records of 7.9 Million Nigerians? In the said... Read More

On behalf of the Federal Government, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has commended Nigerians and Legal Residents for their support during the exercise to link the National Identification Number (NIN) to the... Read More

…As the Honourable Minister Of Communications and Digital Economy launches the Tokenization Policy in the Diaspora The Honorable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has officially opened the 3rd National Identification Number... Read More

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is pleased to announce that the National Identification Number (NIN) Verification Service (NVS) portal, which went down a few days ago due to maintenance by one of the Commission’s network service providers of it’s... Read More

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) wishes to inform the public that its servers were not breached but are fully optimised at the highest international security levels as the custodian of the most important national database for Nigeria. Making this declaration in... Read More

UPDATE: The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has conveyed the approval of the Federal Government to extend the deadline for the National Identity Number (NIN)-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data verificationto the 31st... Read More

The National Identity Management Commission is delighted to announce more than 60 million as the total number of unique NIN records in the National Identity Database (NIDB). This feat couldn’t have been possible without the cooperation of all stakeholders including the... Read More

UPDATE (26 July, 2021) – The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to 31st of October, 2021. The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to the 30th of June, 2021. The... Read More

The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, FNCS, FBCS, FIIM, chaired the meeting of the Ministerial Task Force on the NIN-SIM data linkage. The meeting was attended by key stakeholders, including the EVC/CEO of the Nigerian... Read More

…URGES NIGERIANS TO REPORT UNWHOLESOME ACTS The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) wishes to reiterate its zero tolerance to corruption, fraudulent activities, and extortion in the process of enrolment and other activities. The Director-General/CEO, Engr. Aliyu Aziz... Read More