FG to enforce use of National Identity Number January

The Federal Government has said it will embark on massive enforcement of the use of the National Identity Number (NIN) for public transactions by January 2019 in the country.

The state Director, National Orientation Agency, (NOA) Barrister Charles Nwoji, made the disclosure at a one- day sensitisation campaign jointly organised by the agency and the State Directorate of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on the benefits of the national identity card and the use of the NIN, held at the palace of the traditional ruler of Ndikelionwu in Orumba North Local Government Area, Professor Chukwuemeka Ike.

The NOA director, who said the programme was organised for the people of the 16 communities in the local government area, advised those who have not obtained their NIN to do so immediately with valid identification letters from their President-Generals and other valid and acceptable forms of identification.

While advising the people who have registered and obtained their NIN to preserve and protect the numbers, Barrister Nwoji, said the people could also register their school-age children and new born babies using their NIN.

He noted that the NIN is a unique number which would be valid for life and stressed that with the NIMC Number, public transactions could be seamless and hassles-free, saying that the state ranked first in the NIN registration exercise in the South East.

Declaring the event open,  Professor Ike, explained that the NIN would enable them benefit  from government development policies, programmes and activities and challenged the people to actively partake in the registration exercise.

Official of the National Identity Management Commission in Orumba North Local Government Area, Mrs. Tochukwu Nwajagu, said that the Commission is committed towards getting it right by producing accurate and correct data base for Nigerians for equitable allocation of the nation’s resources.