Federal Government of Nigeria has returned the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Ministry of Interior.
Gatekeepers News reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered the relocation from the Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy to the Interior to address the issues associated with the National Identity Numbers (NIN), one of the major conditions for application and obtaining of International Passports and other travelling documents.
Head of Corporate Communications of NIMC, Kayode Adegoke has also confirmed the development.
On delays associated with issuance of NIN to Nigerians, especially those with change of birth date and arrangements of a sequence of names, Adegoke said the issues are being addressed.
He disclosed that NIMC would launch a mobile application soon as part of several innovations to tackle the problems.
On whether NIMC is aware that some persons are using the problems to obtain money fraudulently from Nigerians, Adegoke dismissed the insinuations, saying such persons are certainly not from NIMC.
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, had on assumption of office vowed to remove all bottlenecks and encumbrances in the process of issuance of the Nigerian travel document by the Nigeria Immigration Service.
