![]() ![]() The job of committees: The Nigerian government has set up various committees to harmonise data, with the latest being a steering committee set up in 2019. The same questions: In 2014, the question on the lips of some experts was, why double down on the BVN when the same energy could be poured into helping people get the NIN? Seven years later, we are asking, why not harmonise the BVN data and give people NINs? What happened to all the data from other government agencies? In December 2020, the Ministry of Communications and the Digital economy ordered people to link their NINs to their SIMs, or get blocked from mobile communications. At that time, the BVN seemed like a duplication of effort. Note that the NIN project started as far back as 2007, and it was supposed to address most of the concerns that the BVN came to solve. On August 28, 2014, former president, Goodluck Jonathan, launched the pilot phase of the e-ID scheme where the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) would issue ID cards - powered by Mastercard and Cryptovision - that would serve the dual purpose of identification and payments. Following this directive, millions of Nigerians had to queue at their respective banks to get captured to prevent being disconnected from their bank accounts. It made the BVN a prerequisite to operate a bank account in Nigeria. Gazing at recent history? In 2014, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced the BVN, a biometric technology with a secure unique identifier. In the words of Dr Isa Ali Pantami, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and the Digital Economy, it is a crime to open a Bank Account in Nigeria without a NIN.Īccording to the Minister, the BVN is a banking policy while the NIN is backed by law, so he’s urging the CBN to prioritise the NIN over the BVN. The Update: The Nigerian government has stated that it wants to replace the Bank Verification Number (BVN) with the National Identification Number (NIN). ![]() Beyond ads: Twitter’s subscription prospects.Oluwanifemiand Emmanuelhere Today we are discussing: ![]()
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