The new national ID card that government wants to introduce will have ATM function and people would indicate interest to get it if they want the card.
Foreigners that are legal resident for Nigeria can fit apply for the card also.
arification became necessary following the barrage of criticisms against the new policy considered unnecessary and a waste of resources.
Major stakeholders have asked NIMC to improve on its infrastructures and conclude the ongoing capturing of citizens into its National Identity database, instead of toying with the idea of a new national identity card mid-way and taking over the roles of financial institutions.
Due to infrastructure deficits, the commission had encountered a series of issues with its Servers in the past creating major problems for citizens who needed to link their National Identity Numbers (NIN) with their Subscriber’s Identity Modules (SIM) and those who were seeking the NIN for Passports issuance.
However, the Head of Corporate Communications of the NIMC, Kayode Adegoke, clarified in a message that “the new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multipurpose card (GMPC), eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.”
He said: “The single GMPC has multiple use cases: Payments/Financial, Government intervention/services, travel, etc
“The National Identity Management Commission is working with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System to deliver the payment and financial use cases.
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