National ID: NIMC Opens New Card Collection Centres

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has established new centres for collection of National Identity Cards in all of its state offices across the country in an effort to improve the rate of collection nationwide.

Investigations also revealed that plans are underway to open similar card collection centres in all the local government areas (LGA’s) in the country.
The general manager, Corporate Communications, NIMC, Mr Abdulhamid Umar, said efforts are being made to ensure massive distribution of the cards to the card collection centres with a view to also issuing the cards to Nigerians in the rural areas as directed by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
At the celebratory launch of the National e-ID Card on August 28, 2014, in Abuja, the president urged the commission to ensure that at least 100 million Nigerians are enrolled for the National Identification Number (NIN) and that the e-ID Cards are issued. According to the president, ordinary Nigerians must benefit from the use of the card.
“The card builds a window to a social security benefit system and, therefore, it is a card every Nigerian should get,” Umar said.
He further confirmed that although not all LGAs have enrolment centres, efforts are seriously ongoing to ensure that enrolment and card collection centres are established in all the local government areas.
“The NIMC currently has over 400 enrolment centres nationwide and is working tirelessly to ensure that more of such centres are opened in all of the 774 local government areas,” he said.
It has been observed that some Nigerians who have received their National e-ID Cards are completely impressed and excited with the process of Card issuance and activation.
Speaking to this issue, Mr. Emeka Ofo, an applicant who just received his card at the Alausa office said: “I received an SMS from NIMC on Wednesday to report to the Alausa office for my card on Friday the 20thFebruary, 2015.