Allegedly lost 7.9 million NIN records: NIMC cautions Nigerian Tribune against ‘unprofessional reportage’

The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has cautioned the Nigerian Tribune Newspaper against what it described as, “unprofessional reportage”, in a report published in the newspaper June 7, 2022, headline: “Did NIMC Lose NIN Records of 7.9 Million Nigerians?”

In a press statement dated Wednesday June 8, 2022, NIMC labelled the report as erroneous and malicious, insisting that its database remains intact and impenetrable.

The statement, signed by the Head, Corporate Communications in NIMC, Kayode Adegoke and obtained this morning, Thursday June 9 by Fresh Angle International from the verified twitter handle of the Commission, noted: “The National Identity Management Commission has noticed with great dismay an erroneous and malicious news report published in the Nigerian Tribune of June 7, 2022, with the deceptive and misleading headline: Did NIMC Lose NIN Records of 7.9 Million Nigerians?

“In the said misleading report, the writer insinuated that NIMC lost 7.9 million NIN records of Nigerians; the writer also gave varying inaccuracies of the NIMC database in an attempt to confuse and misinform the general public, including wrongly stating that the National Identification Number (NIN) is a 10-digit number

“The Management of NIMC wishes to reassure Nigerians that our database remains intact and impenetrable, and, no NIN records could have been missing. It is also clearly known that the NIN is an 11-digit unique number.

“We therefore urge Nigerians to ignore the said report, which is the product of the writer's infantile imagination. We also urge the Nigerian Tribune, with a history of continuous publication since it was launched in November 1949, not to let itself be used as a platform for such unprofessional reportage”.

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