Requirements for NIN data modifications — NIMC

May 4, 2024

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has disclosed the required documents for individuals in Nigeria seeking to update their National Identity Number (NIN) details.

Contents

CHANGE OF ADDRESS
CHANGE OF NAME
PHONE NUMBER

In a post on the NIMC X’s handle on Saturday, May 4th, 2024, the commission outlined the required documents for modifying personal information such as date of birth, name, address, or phone number.

Here are the documents Required for Data Modification

DATE OF BIRTH

Documents required

Digitalized NPC Attestation Certificate for those born before 1992.
Digitalized NPC Birth Certificate for those born after 1992

Steps

For both categories, only the digitalized documents are required.
The applicants must apply for these certificate via NPC self-service site and not the manual papaer document.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS

Any of the listed Documents below

Utillty bill
Tenancy agreement
Community leaders attestation letter

CHANGE OF NAME

Documents

Court affidavit
Newspaper extract
Marriage certificate in the case of marital status
Other government ID

PHONE NUMBER

Document required: Police report

Steps

The applicant should not add a zero before his/her number to avert the error issue of having double zeros in front of the phone number. Eg. +2348012345678 and not +234 08012345678. Adding a zero in front causes the double zero issue which 008012345678

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However, you can also visit their website for more info: selfservicemodification.nimc.gov.ng Q