NIMC to take over BVN, voters’ database

The Central Bank of Nigeria and the National Identity Management Commission are set to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the takeover of the Bank Verification Number by the NIMC.

The General Manager, Corporate Communications, NIMC, Mr. Abdulhamid Umar, confirmed this in a telephone interview.

This followed the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government should hand over the different databases of Nigerians that they had developed in the course of discharging their mandates to the NIMC, the body mandated by law to manage the identity of Nigerian citizens and residents.

Government should hand over the different databases of Nigerians that they had developed in the course of discharging their mandates to the NIMC, the body mandated by law to manage the identity of Nigerian citizens and residents.

Under the BVN initiated by the CBN, banks operating in the country are required to collect the biometric data of their customers and warehouse the data with the central bank. The deadline for the BVN registration ends on October 31.

We learnt that the NIMC had also opened discussions with the Independent National Electoral Commission for the takeover of the voters’ registration database.