The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says that any National Identification Card or National Identity Number (NIN) issued in Kwara before 2012 is not valid.

The NIMC acting Coordinator in the state, Mr Paul Popoola, disclosed this on Tuesday at the University of Ilorin, while speaking with newsmen.

Popoola explained that NIN registration in the early 2000s had been rendered unacceptable by the law that created the commission.

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He, therefore, urged those yet to obtain the card to do so without further delay.

Popoola said that NIMC registration centres across Kwara would remain open every working day to capture residents of the state.

He commended the University of Ilorin for providing space within its premises to register the residents for the NIN.

“The university has been most magnanimous and visionary for giving the commission a space within its premises to capture interested citizens since 2014,’’ he said.

Popoola said that through the cooperation of successive administrations of the university, many of its staff and students, as well as those who live around it, had been registered.

He thanked the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, for providing logistics for the exercise. 

The identity management commission was established by the NIMC Act No. 23 of 2007. It was established to create, operate and manage Nigeria's national identity card database, integrate the existing identity database in government institutions and register individuals and legal residents. It was also geared towards assigning a unique national identification number to individuals registered and introduce general multi-purpose cards to these ones.