This is completely irresponsible of us as a country, to insist on this mad scramble for NIN numbers in the middle of Covid's 2nd wave. People are dying. We should be smarter/wiser/better than this for goodness sake."
The singer's tweets are coming on the heels of the federal government deadline issued for citizens without the NIN.
The NIN is issued by the NIMC upon enrolment into the National Identity Database and is used to capture an individual's records.
Crowd at the NIMC in Alausa Ikeja, on Monday, Dec 21, 2020 (Twitter: @Prinzgbemi)
Subscribers with NIN have been given the grace to connect it with their records before January 19, 2021, while those without NIN have till February 9, 2021, to get it and update their records.