{"id":14033,"date":"2017-08-07T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:07:09","slug":"your-citizenship-doubtful-without-identification-number-nimc-boss-tells-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/your-citizenship-doubtful-without-identification-number-nimc-boss-tells-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Your citizenship doubtful without identification number \u2013 NIMC boss tells Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fleft storydate\">By Zakariyya Adaramola<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Identity Management Commission [NIMC] has warned that any Nigerian without the National Identification Number [NIN] runs the risk of being regarded as a foreigner.<\/p>\n<p>The NIMC\u2019s Director General Engr. Aliyu Aziz who gave the warning at a press conference in Lagos at the weekend also said NIN would eliminate\u201d ghosts, multiple identities and enhance ability of citizens to assert their identity\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the duty of every citizen to enrol and obtain his or her National Identification Number, which entitles one to be fully regarded as a Nigerian citizen\u2019\u2019, he said, adding that \u201cwithout NIN anyone\u2019s claims of being a Nigerian citizen are doubtful; that is what the NIMC Act stipulates.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The NIMC boss said NIN would facilitate service delivery in MDAs and enhance work of law enforcement agencies thereby providing public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/news\/it-world\/your-citizenship-doubtful-without-identification-number-nimc-boss-tells-nigerians\/208833.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/news\/it-world\/your-citizenship-doubtful-without-identification-number-nimc-boss-tells-nigerians\/208833.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Zakariyya Adaramola The National Identity Management Commission [NIMC] has warned that any Nigerian without the National Identification Number [NIN] runs the risk of being regarded as a foreigner. The NIMC\u2019s Director General Engr. Aliyu Aziz who gave the warning at a press conference in Lagos at the weekend also said NIN would eliminate\u201d ghosts, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14034,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions\/14034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}