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The Nigeria Data Protection Commission stated that it is increasing its examination of the licensees of the National Identity Management Commission after a website called “expressverify” violated data protection rules by obtaining National Identification Number verification credentials without permission. This information was revealed in a statement found on NDPC’s official account on Friday The website was reported […]

A 60-year-old man named Bamidele Haruna was brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court on Thursday for supposedly showing a fake National Identification Number while acting as a guarantor in a case at the Federal High Court. The accused is being charged with three offenses related to conspiracy, forgery, lying under oath, and pretending to be someone else, as brought against him by the police. The prosecutor, […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that the over 40 million telephone lines barred after failing to link to the National Identity Numbers face the risk of being forfeited soon. The NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Mouka, disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking with PUNCH Online in an interview. According to him, the telephone […]