{"id":40309,"date":"2024-04-15T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40309"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:26:50","slug":"nigerias-nimc-introducing-one-multi-purpose-digital-id-card-not-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/nigerias-nimc-introducing-one-multi-purpose-digital-id-card-not-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s NIMC introducing one multi-purpose digital ID card, not three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ayang Macdonald<\/p>\n<p>The National Identity Management Commission of Nigeria (NIMC) has clarified that only one new digital ID card with multiple functions will be introduced in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>This information is contained in a factsheet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nimc_ng\/status\/1779076413556928531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> by the ID authority to its X platform on April 12. This comes after it announced the introduction of the card in a statement early this month, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/202404\/confusion-as-nigeria-national-id-cards-multiply\">sparked some confusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement had led to various interpretations, including that the agency was planning to introduce three different cards, prompting scathing criticisms in the country\u2019s conventional and social media spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/202404\/nigerias-nimc-introducing-one-multi-purpose-digital-id-card-not-three\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/202404\/nigerias-nimc-introducing-one-multi-purpose-digital-id-card-not-three<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ayang Macdonald The National Identity Management Commission of Nigeria (NIMC) has clarified that only one new digital ID card with multiple functions will be introduced in the coming days. This information is contained in a factsheet posted by the ID authority to its X platform on April 12. This comes after it announced the [&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-40309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-695","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40311,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40309\/revisions\/40311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}