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New national ID card single not three – NIMC

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has clarified that the new national identity card is a single, multipurpose card and not three separate cards.

 

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NIMC’s Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke, confirmed this in a note titled “Key Facts About the Proposed New General Multipurpose National Identity Card”.

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On April 5, the commission announced that it had collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System to launch a new card with payment functionality for all types of social and financial services.

Part of the note read, “The new national ID card is a single, convenient, and general multipurpose card, eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.

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“The single GMPC has multiple use cases: payments/financial, government intervention/services, travel, etc.”

According to the commission, only applicants for the card will have to request it with their NIN through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks.

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It added that the card would be issued through the applicants’ respective banks in line with existing protocols for the issuance of debit and credit cards.

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