Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has debunked a report that 7.9 million, National Identification Number, NIN records of Nigerians are missing.
In a statement signed by the Head of Corporate Communications, NIMC, Mr. Kayode Adegoke reassures Nigerians that the NIMC’s database remains intact and impenetrable, and, no NIN records could have been missing.
He said “It is also clearly known that the NIN is an 11-digit unique number.”
According the Commission: “We noticed with great dismay, an erroneous and malicious news report published in the Nigerian Tribune of June 7, 2022, with the deceptive and misleading headline: Did NIMC Lose NIN Records of 7.9 Million Nigerians?”
In the said misleading report, the writer insinuated that NIMC lost 7.9 million NIN records of Nigerians; the writer also gave varying inaccurate figures of the NIMC database in an attempt to confuse and misinform the general public.
He also wrongly stated that the National Identification Number (NIN) was a 10-digit number.
“Nigerians to ignore the said report, which is the product of the writer’s infantile imagination,” NIMC stated
The NIMC urged the Nigerian Tribune, with a history of continuous publication since it was launched in November 1949, not to let itself be used as a platform for such unprofessional reportage.
Lateefah Ibrahim
