FG To Enforce Use Of National Identity Number January Next Year

The Federal Government is to embark on massive enforcement of the use of the National Identity Number for public transactions by January, 2019 in the country.

The State Director, National Orientation Agency, NOA, Barrister Charles Nwoji, made the disclosure at a one day sensitization campaignjointly organized by the Agency and the State Directorate of the National Identity Management Commission on the benefits of the National Identity card and the use of the National Identity Number, held at the palace of the Traditional Ruler of Ndikelionwu in Orumba North Local Government Area.

The NOA Director maintained that the programme was organized for the people of the sixteen communities in the local government area and advised people who have not registered and obtained their National Identity Number to do so immediately with their valid identification
letters from their Presidents-General and other valid and acceptable forms of identification.

While advising the people who have registered and obtained their National Identity Numbers to strive towards preserving and protecting the Numbers, Barrister Nwoji, told the people  that they could also register their school age children with their own National Identity Numbers, including new born  babies.
He noted that the National Identity Number is a unique number which would be valid for life and stressed that with the NIMC Number, public transactions could be seamless and hasseles-free, saying that the state has ranked first in the NIN registration exercise in the South East.

Declaring the event open, the Traditional Ruler of Ndikelionwu community, Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, reminded the participants that National Identity Number would enable them benefit optimally from government development policies, programmes and activities and challenged the people to actively partake in the NIN registration
exercise whenever the time comes.

On her part, the supervisor of the National Identity Management Commission in Orumba North Local Government Area, Mrs. Tochukwu
Nwajagu, said that the Commission is committed towards getting it right by producing accurate and correct data base for Nigerians for equitable allocation of the nation’s resources.