NIMC reacts to reports of NIN database breach

The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has reacted to reports alleging that Nigeria’s National Identification Number, NIN, database had been breached.

In a connection via X on Thursday, the committee described the reports arsenic mendacious and misleading, noting that the claims had been recycled from a study published successful 2024.

DAILY POST reports that a viral video had claimed that NIN and Bank Verification Number, BVN, details could beryllium purchased for arsenic small arsenic N100.

According to the video, NIMC officials successful Lagos were selling individuals’ NIN accusation for N1,000 extracurricular the commission’s office.

Reacting, NIMC said, “The Commission wishes to state, categorically, that this assertion is mendacious and unfounded. The Commission National Identity Database, NIDB, has not been breached oregon compromised astatine immoderate point.”

NIMC stressed that it maintains robust, multi-layered information infrastructure to support the idiosyncratic information of registered citizens and ineligible residents successful enactment with planetary champion practices.

“The Commission views the circulation of specified unverified claims with ...