{"id":20002,"date":"2018-09-18T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T07:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=20002"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T07:34:59","slug":"nigeria-mandatory-use-of-identity-numbers-begins-in-january-2019-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-mandatory-use-of-identity-numbers-begins-in-january-2019-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Mandatory use of identity numbers begins in January 2019 \u2013 FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"author vcard\">Zakariyya Adaramola<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government says it is enforcing the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) beginning from January 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the mandatory usage of the identification number was sequel to Federal Executive Council (FEC\u2019s) approval last week of the immediate commencement of the implementation of a strategic roadmap for a new Digital Identity Ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/mandatory-use-of-identity-numbers-begins-in-january-2019-fg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/mandatory-use-of-identity-numbers-begins-in-january-2019-fg.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Zakariyya Adaramola The Federal Government says it is enforcing the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) beginning from January 1, 2019. The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He said the mandatory usage of the identification number was sequel [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20002","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=20002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20002\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}