New national ID card: All you need to know, how it works [Video]

• The federal government, through the new national ID card, has quite a lot of goodies for Nigerians with NIN
• This is as the new card comes with payment functionality both for debit and prepaid transactions
• Even more, the card comes with machine-readable Zone (MRZ) in line with ICAO stand, as disclosed by the commission

The federal government, through the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is set to launch a new national identity card with payment functionality for all types of social and financial services.

As announced by the NIMC’s head of corporate communications, Kayode Adegoke, on Friday, April 5, the card is being produced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS), and will be powered by AfriGO, a national domestic card scheme.

The decision for the productionof the card is backed by di NIMC Act No. 23 of 2007, which ordered NIMC to enroll and issue one General Multipurpose card (GMPC) to Nigerians and …