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Enrollments for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) by bank account owners in the country increased to 62.7 million this July.
Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), eNaira, makes up less than 1% of the total currency in circulation as of March 2024, almost three years after it was launched.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has partnered with the National Population Commission (NPC) to incorporate the National Identification Number (NIN) into the country’s digital birth registration system in an initiative aimed at enhancing child identity and citizenship in Nigeria.
The total number of active voice subscriptions has declined across 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the first quarter of 2024, according to the latest telecoms data report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
ID4D: World Bank restructures $430 million project to guarantee financing as Nigeria misses deadline
The World Bank has said it is restructuring the Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project to guarantee complete disbursement of the $430 million pledged for the project by the financiers.
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, has officially reacted to the alleged purchase of his National Identification Number (NIN) slip for N100 on a website that has now been taken down.
The World Bank has so far disbursed a total of $45.5 million to the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) under the Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project aimed at enrolling more Nigerians for the National Identification Number (NIN).
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has listed five websites allegedly harvesting Nigerians’ data fraudulently.
A Pan-African social enterprise, Paradigm Initiative, has raised an alarm over its discovery of National Identification Number (NIN), Bank Verification Number (BVN), and other data of Nigerians on a website for as low as N100.
CREDICORP says every Nigerian who is economically active would have their credit score written on their NIN.
NIMC said the vetting is part of measures to ensure the security of the National Identification Number (NIN) database.
Data released by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) have revealed that registration for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) increased by 1.75 million in the last four months plus a few days in May.