The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) reported that 120,000,040 million citizens and legal residents had registered for National Identity Numbers (NINs).
This comes as the commission gave an explanation for its recent review of its framework for service prices.
The Director General of NIMC, Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, spoke during a news conference on Wednesday.
She claims that over the past 24 months, NIMC has kept increasing the capacity of its facilities to better serve Nigerians.
According to Abisoye-Coker, the commission has resulted in a 40% decrease in corruption within the agency.
On its recent price review, she noted that charges for modifications of data were increased while verifications were decreased.
“There were some prices that were too much, so what we did was to remove them.
“There were all sorts of prices over there. People were extorting citizens with outrageous prices.
“NIN enrolment is free. But if you want to modify your data for any reason, you have to pay more.
“Some prices were reviewed downwards and others upwards.
“In terms of verification, the prices were reviewed downwards but upwards in terms of modifications,” she said.
Recall that on 1st May, 2025, NIMC announced a review of its service prices.
Accordingly, the commission hiked date of birthday corrections fee to N28,574 from N16,340.
Similarly, NIMC increased its NIN retrieval service on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data to N50 from N20.