The police in Adamawa State have arrested Ajik Ishaq, a 400-level student of the Plateau State University Bokkos, who allegedly specializes in forging and issuing fake National ID cards.
Ishaq who studies English and Literature at the university was arrested on November 24. Ajik, was apprehended while parading as well as advertising the kind of services he renders to people as a staff of the National Identity Management Commission(NIMC).
An investigation by the police showed that he had defrauded about 28 unsuspecting citizens and realized the sum of N34,000 only.
While being paraded before newsmen on Wednesday, November 30 alongside other suspects, Ishaq said he collects the sum of N1,500 only per identity card.
He narrated that whenever he meets a Christian, he gives his name as Ajik, and that while with a Muslim, he identifies himself as Yusuf in order win trust.
He said that it was while he was carrying out his business that somebody suspected he was a fake staff and called the police who arrested him.
While parading the suspects, the Commissioner of Police, S.K Akande, vowed to ensure the prosecution of all the suspects upon completion of investigation.
Nigerians have now been given the opportunity to use their mobile phones to get their National ID cards without going to queue up at any NIMC registration centers, according to the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
NIMC have launched their mobile app that will enable every Nigerian gain access to acquire an original National Identification with their photo and print to get their paper or plastic NIN.
NIMC Mobile app will enable you to do your self registration that will allow you prove your identity with your phone anywhere you want use it. (On-the-go). You can as well use it to verify and check citizens and legal residents who already had their NIN. It grants you access to government services like FIRS, FRSC, NHIS, NPF, NYSC, and many others.
If you want get your Nigerian National ID card from your phone, scroll down to see simply steps on how to go about it.
Step1:Download the NIMC mobile app
Firstly you will need to download the NIMC mobile app from Google Playstore for Android phones, while App Store fot iPhone users.
Step 2: fill in your NIN number and phone number
After installing the app, you will have to log in and type your National Identity Number (NIN) on your national identity slip or you can dial *326# in your mobile phone to retrieve you NIN number.
Dial 3463# with the phone number you used to register your national ID card. You will be sent your user ID and an OTP to your phone.
Step 3: Fill in your User ID
After receiving OTP and User ID message, type the User ID and OTP in the provided space.
After that, Welldone! you now have acess to use the NIMC mobile app!
Step 4: Final stage
You will see all the menu in the NIMC Mobile ID app. What you need to do next is click on ‘Show my ID’ and your national ID card is ready for you to download and print out on both paper and plastic format. As simply as that!
Please remember, only those who have applied for their national ID card are eligible to get their National Identity Number that they will use to download the ID card.
If you don’t have a NIN yet, you will have to do your National ID card Enrolment free of charge, please for more information do visit nimcmobile.app to get more clarification.
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Those of us who cannot part with anything are being treated without respect as if we are slaves. But those who paid are treated like kings and queens.
Workers handling the registration of national identity numbers in Delta State have resorted to extorting prospective registrants as they charged between N3,000 and N5,000 for the enrolment form which is supposed to be free.
Hundreds of applicants who besieged the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) office at Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State were asked to pay to get the forms which are being hoarded by the commission’s staff.
At Effurun, a person who monitored the exercise on Wednesday at the council secretariat observed that the forms were available as expected because the staff hoarded the enrolment forms to sell to desperate applicants.
A registrant said that the extortion was being coordinated by the manager of the NIMC in the area, adding that those who could not afford N3,000 or N5,000 were treated with disdain.
“Officials of the National Identity Management Commission are making a hell of money from this illegal sale of the forms to applicants,” the source said. “Those of us who cannot part with anything are being treated without respect as if we are slaves. But those who paid are treated like kings and queens.
“Do you know that here we are, we saw an officer of the commission receiving N40, 000 from a lady and she was handed a bunch of the enrolment forms. We noticed that the lady came with her entire family members who were tired of waiting on the queue to collect the form. We also saw that the commission’s officials are working hand in hand with some of the illicit business council officials.
“In some cases, some officials of the Uvwie council in connivance with the commission’s officials collect between N9,000 and N10,000 from desperate applicants who are not ready to wait for the enrolment of applicants. In Nigeria, nothing goes for nothing, and it isn’t good. You will be surprised that at the end of the day monies are remitted to some top-ranking officials of the commission,” the applicant said.
NIMC staff at the local government declined to comment on the sharp practices.
Lagosians on Tuesday stormed the state head office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) despite the extension of the SIM deactivation deadline.
The residents arrived at the office as early as 6 am besieging the main gate of the NIMC office for the enrollment of the National Identification Number (NIN).
However, frustration sets in as security men were trying to control the surge with many of them complaining about the slow pace of the exercise.
Many have fears that they may not beat the deadline given by the Federal Government for the registration.
The Federal Government on Monday extended the deadline issued to all telecommunications operators in the country to block all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) without National Identification Number (NIN).
NIMC Office, Lagos.
This follows a meeting of the National Task Force on NIN and SIM Registration which held on Monday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The extension deadline issued to all telecommunications operators forms part of the resolutions adopted at the meeting chaired by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami.
Based on the endorsement of the Federal Government, the meeting approved three weeks extension for subscribers with NIN from December 30 to January 19, 2021.
It also agreed that registration for subscribers without NIN should be extended by six weeks – from December 30 to February 9, 2021.
The Executive Vice-Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Danbatta, and the Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Aliyu Aziz, confirmed the extension of the deadline in a statement released at the end of the meeting.
“NIMC has provided strategies to enable citizens to attend the registration in full compliance with COVID-19 protocols – particularly the use of facemasks which remains mandatory and maintenance of social distancing.
“The President appreciates Nigerians for their patience and commitment to updating their identities; the Federal Government also thanks to all stakeholders for their compliance with the directives,” the statement read.
President Muhammadu Buhari also commended the effort of the Task Force and urged all stakeholders to take advantage of the extension to link their SIMs with their NIN.
The government insisted that the USSD and verification charges for the purpose of linking SIMs with NIN remained suspended during the period.
Those who attended the meeting included major stakeholders in the sector, including the heads of NCC, NIMC, and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of telecommunications operators such as MTN, Airtel, Ntel, Glo, Smile, and 9Moble, were also in attendance.
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