The National Identity Management Commission now charges N5000 to replace lost National Identity Card. However, Nigerians have termed this ‘criminal’.
NIMC, while responding to an enquiry on Twitter also disclosed that renewal of expired ID cards would now attract a fee of N3,000.
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Card renewal is N3000 when your card expires and card replacement is N5000 for lost or stolen cards. https://t.co/8YQRDvYEEb
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) October 15, 2019
When your National e-id card expires it cost N3000 payable via remitta for renewal.
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) October 15, 2019
Card renewal is N3000 when your card expires and card replacement is N5000 for lost or stolen cards. https://t.co/8YQRDvYEEb
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) October 15, 2019
NIMC explained that aside the payment, other requirements will include “a written application with attached proof of payment receipt made through remita, bank teller, NIN slip and submit it at our office,” the Tweet read.
However, many Nigerians took to Twitter on Tuesday to express their outrage and dissent to the fees attached.
SEE TWITTER REACTIONS BELOW
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Card renewal is N3000 when your card expires and card replacement is N5000 for lost or stolen cards. https://t.co/8YQRDvYEEb
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) October 15, 2019
When your National e-id card expires it cost N3000 payable via remitta for renewal.
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) October 15, 2019
Card renewal is N3000 when your card expires and card replacement is N5000 for lost or stolen cards. https://t.co/8YQRDvYEEb
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) October 15, 2019
NIMC Update!!!
National ID (NID) card – N3,000New NID renewal and Replacement – N5,000
Do u know most people still use temporary NID slips? But the agency has the nerve to extort Nigerians even when they haven't done their own job.
A sick country where citizenship expires. pic.twitter.com/A0rjmS2ulG
— ???? OLUWAFIFUNMI ???????????? (@FifunmiRexx) October 15, 2019
"NIMC needs ₦132bn to register 200m Nigerians"~ Aziz, DG (Punch, aug, 2019)
National ID card renewal costs N3,000, replacement cost N5,000~ NIMC
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In Aug. the @nimc_ng stated we need ₦600 per ID card.In October the @nimc_ng is saying we need over 500% per IDcard
Criminals
— Young Otutu (@YoungOtutu) October 15, 2019
Traveling passport, driver's license & national ID card will all expire, and @nigimmigration, @FRSCNigeria & @nimc_ng will make you pay to get them renewed, but @inecnigeria made your voter's card to have life validity.
Only our votes matter to them.
This is deliberate wickedness— Olamide (@olajideobe) October 15, 2019
N5000 to renenw National ID card??? That means your citizenship as a nigerian expires after a certain period of time so you have to renew your citizenship with N5000 or else you are no longer nigerian? Who brought up this foolishness???
— WarepamorSammy ???????? (@Warepamorsammy) October 15, 2019
So if the National ID of a poor man living in the village expires and he can't afford 5k for renewal, he is no more a citizen of Nigeria again.
We all are crazy in this country both the government and the civilians pic.twitter.com/RhGLnRkJPd— Baby boy ???? (@Iam_ChisomLucky) October 15, 2019
So if my National ID card expires and I don't renew, Does it mean that I'm no longer a Nigerian? pic.twitter.com/0jUV1Y3gsg
— Local Thanos Nwa @JohnCena (@fablouschiboy) October 15, 2019
Established in 2007 to create, operate and manage Nigeria’s national identity card database. As at September, 2019, the NIMC stated that it had enrolled about 36 million Nigerians nationwide.
It has also in recent time disclosed plans to enroll Nigerians in the Diaspora, but only 79 Nigerians reportedly enrolled due to the fees attached to it in the United States.
The Commission had also complained about paucity of funds, saying it would need at least N132bn to capture every Nigerian within a period of three to five years.
Recently, the NIMC mandated the NIN registration for UTME applicants.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) stated that starting from year 2020, UTME/Direct Entry candidates would register for its examinations with their NIN to solve the challenges of multiple registrations.
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