In line with President Muhammadu Buhari's directive on August 10 2015, to all agencies involved in collection and usage of biometric data in Nigeria to harmonize the data captured, Director General of the National Identioty Management Commission, Chris Onyemenam on Wenesday this week paid a courtesy call on the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, at the FRSC Headquarters in Abuja.It will be recalled that the FRSC had made the move recently by releasing a press statement stating its readiness to collaborate with NIMC, in line with President Buhari's directive.
Friday 28 August 2015
NIMC AND FRSC TO HARMONIZE DATABASES
In line with President Muhammadu Buhari's directive on August 10 2015, to all agencies involved in collection and usage of biometric data in Nigeria to harmonize the data captured, Director General of the National Identioty Management Commission, Chris Onyemenam on Wenesday this week paid a courtesy call on the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, at the FRSC Headquarters in Abuja.It will be recalled that the FRSC had made the move recently by releasing a press statement stating its readiness to collaborate with NIMC, in line with President Buhari's directive.
PRESS RELEASE ON DG's COURTESY CALL ON THE Ag. CHAIRMAN INEC.
NIMC AND INEC COMPLY WITH PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE ON HARMONISATION OF
BIOMETRIC DATA: SET UP JOINT TECHNICAL COMMITTEE.
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have agreed to immediately
commence implementation of the Presidential directive on harmonization and
integration of Biometric Data capture by the various government concerned
parastatals. To conclusively achieve this, both Commissions have set up a joint
technical committee to work out modalities for the seamless integration of INEC
Database into the National Identity Database managed by NIMC.
Thursday 27 August 2015
DISCLAIMER
The attention of NIMC management has been drawn to rumors making the rounds that the National Identity Management Commission is recruiting. We wish to inform the general public that NIMC IS NOT RECRUITING.
Please disregard any such information.
Thank you.
NIMC IS NOT TO BLAME FOR CHAMS MISFORTUNE
The
Management of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has
read the newspaper report in the Saturday August 22nd, 2015, edition of
Thisday Newspapers in which the founding Managing Director of Chams Plc,
Mr. Demola Aladekomo claimed that Chams City Project, spread across
Abuja, Portharcourt, Benin City and Lagos are folding up, having gone
bankrupt as a result of its intellectual property and technical partners
allegedly been stolen by the NIMC.
The
National Identity Management Commission categorically denies all the
allegations in the report and reject in its entirety the provocative and
disrespectful attempt by the Mr. Aladekomo led Management of Chams Plc
to blame NIMC for its poor performance which has resulted in the
reported shut down of Chams City Project operations, perhaps including
the suspension of the Chams Plc shares from trading on the Nigerian
Stock Exchange sometime ago.
PRESS RELEASE ON PRESIDENTIAL ENROLMENT
President Muhammadu Buhari has on Tuesday 25th August 2015 enrolled for his National Identification Number at the NIN enrolment centre in the Aso Rock Villa.
Thursday 6 August 2015
PRESS RELEASE
NIMC set to Deploy
Authentication and verification Service link to MDAs, Banks
The National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC) said it has completed all plans to deploy the
National Identification Number (NIN) authentication and
verification Service link to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA’s)
and Banks.
The General Manager,
Information Technology and Identity Database (IT/IDD), Mr. Chuks Onyepunuka, in an interview, stated that the deployment was
part of the Commission’s strategy to ensure the proposed
September commencement of the mandatory use of NIN.
According to him, all Government
institutions and Agencies who require the biometrics of individuals to offer
functional services or for security reasons are required by Law to key into the
NIMC National Identity Database for the purpose of identity management and
verification.
He noted that NIMC has before now, deployed the
authentication and verification service link to the office of one of the
security agencies and would soon after extend to other security agencies. The
NIMC is now set to deploy a pilot phase to MDA’s and Banks.
Mr. Onyepunuka
further noted that NIMC is discussing with on the MDA’s and Banks to enable
them ascertain the infrastructure to achieve the deployment of the NIN authentication and
verification service link to their various offices nationwide.
“These
institutions include the banks, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ministry of
Aviation, Joint Tax Board (JTB), State House, National Universities Commission
(NUC), National Pension Commission (PenCom), Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Federal Road Safety
Commission (FRSC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), etc.,” he further
noted.
At a commercial demonstration
session which held at the NIMC headquarters recently, Mr. Onyepunuka
disclosed that the verification and authentication of the NIN can be done at two
levels: the online, which has two approaches, and the offline platform.
“The online version has the web portal approach used
for NIN verification alone; while the desk top is a robust windows based
approach that allows an individual or organisation to conduct the NIN,
Fingerprint, demographics and document number verification,” he said.
He explained that on presentation of the NIN or the
fingerprints, the individual or organisation requesting such proof shall
utilise the online National Identity Management System (NIMS) NIN verification
service through the authentication and verification Clearing House to confirm
such identity.
He added: “For the offline platform, on presentation
of the National Electronic Identity Card, the individual or organisation
requesting such identity, shall authenticate the identity by conducting a Match
on Card verification (MoC), an irrefutable offline confirmation by requesting
the person to provide his finger prints on a card reading device to enable the
matching of the finger print provided with the finger prints stored in the chip
of the National eID Card.”
He further explained that the individual or
organisation requesting such a proof has access rights and privileges to
determine what category of verification he is allowed to conduct on the
individual and what category of data he is allowed to view.
He
urged Nigerians to take advantage of the over 400 enrolment centres nationwide
to enrol for the NIN because no government agency/institution, bank, or
insurance company, etc., offering services and/or involved in transactions
requiring the identity of an individual, will be allowed to conduct such a
transaction without first demanding for the NIN.
“Eligible applicants are urged to utilize
the NIMC pre-enrolment portal, https://penrol.nimc.gov.ng, to pre-enrol for the
NIN before proceeding to any NIMC enrolment centre closest to them for
biometrics data capture.” He reiterated.
Monday 3 August 2015
PRESS RELEASE
NIMC, PENCOM Deepen Partnership for National Development
The
National Pension Commission, has pledged to hasten the process of harmonising
and integrating the PENCOM database with the National Identity database to
ensure complete synergy
with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
The Director General, PENCOM, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, was speaking when the Director
General/CEO of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Barrister Chris ‘E Onyemenam paid her a courtesy
visit at the PENCOM Headquarters last Wednesday 29th July, 2015 to further
review collaborations.
According
to Mrs. Anohu-Amazu, PENCOM is a sister
organisation to NIMC, and where we are now is a clear indication that we are working towards
the same goal and must work together, to ensure that our organisational roles and mandates are achieved seamlessly.
She noted
that PENCOM is poised to serve not only the pensioners of today, but the
contributors to the various pension funds who are they pensioners of tomorrow.
“There has always been a great need for proper identification and verification
in the pension industry to ensure little or no case of identity theft. It’s a
good thing that NIMC and PENCOM are poised to make a positive impact and contribute
to the country’s economy and development.
Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu further noted, “The
NIMC Idea in PENCOM’s estimation is a fabulous idea. Long before the inception
of the highly structured Pension industry that exist today, there has been a
fundamental need for a foundation Identity Database which all the Agencies and
private organisations can fall back on at any given time, and we are glad that
NIMC has put such structure on ground.”
She
explained that PENCOM is mandated by law to run its own Funtional database, but
will also ensure that the PENCOM database remains in harmony and in sync with
the foundation database of NIMC. “PENCOM has regularly engaged and will
continue to engage NIMC to ensure that we are in complete synergy with NIMC.”
“While
managing PENCOM's functional database, we strive to continually take cues from
NIMC's expertise in identity management and we are indeed excited about the
future as we continue to partner,” she said.
The
Director General, NIMC, in his response, noted that NIMC’s core mandate is
identity management. “The major reasons for identity theft and fraud related
activities in the country is the lack of record keeping. Over the decades,
Nigeria didn’t have an identity database, which made identity theft and fraud very
commonplace among Nigerians.”
He
stated that a lot of people are known to have multiple identities that they use
for varied reasons. “This is costing the Pension industry, the bank industry
and the likes, hundreds of millions of naira annually, thus the need for a
central database to check the number of times people change their names and
identities.
The
NIMC DG explained that with the National Identity Database now in place, every
individual who enrolls into the database is allowed to lie to the system just
once; because once the details are captured, it is stored against the
individual’s biometrics and headshot so that in the next 20 years or more, the
same details can be referred to with the help of the National Identification
Number (NIN).
“Cases
of ghost workers, falsification of age and names, fraud, identity theft, etc.,
are some of the problems faced in our industry that will be curtailed and
eliminated with a centralized identity database, replete with biometric
information,” he added.
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