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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reminded and urged telecoms consumers to link their National Identity Numbers (NINs) with their
NIN registration COVID-19 superspreader Published 20 January 2021 Someone, alarmed by the unthinking directive of the Nigeria Communications Commission requesting Nigerians to immediately obtain the National Identification Number from the lethargic National Identity Management Commission and link it to the Subscriber Identification Module of their mobile telephones in just two weeks, sent in this text message: “Dear Lekan… I will like to draw your attention (to the) mindless endangering of the lives of Nigerians by the NIN registration deadlines in the heat of the (COVID-19) pandemic (tha...
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NIMC: Nigerians to pay N15,000 for date of birth modification January 07 Advertisement Funmi Opesanwo, the NIMC regional coordinator, announced this on Wednesday at the commission’s office in Alausa, Lagos. Emphasizing that NIN enrolment is free, she noted that card renewal, correction of date of birth and change of address attract fees. “For the date of birth correction, there is a processing fee of N15,000. For card renewal or card replacement, there is a processing fee of N5,000. For the modification of address or name, it is N500. So, people misconstrue this to mean that in NIMC the...
Daily Trust reports that this has been the case with the NIN correction process. A Nigerian passport holder, Sunday Eche in 2019, said he was asked by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to go to the NIMC office to correct his name for the issuance of the new international passport. “AT NIMC, I was told that the correction of DOB attracts N15,000, while others have various sums,” he had noted. Mrs Opesanwo said the revenue is paid to the Treasury Single Account of the Federal Government and that it was part of the commission’s revenue generation process.