wanting to link their bank accounts with their NIN. Over 70 million bank account holders are at risk of being barred from accessing their accounts because they have not been able to activate their BVN. The policy threatens to plunge millions into financial uncertainty and hardship.
In a way, ID card schemes are backward. In 2011, the United Kingdom scrapped the national ID card. There, the passport suffices. Nigeria should gradually move in that direction.
The government should rearrange the persisting system that would lead to a registration process rather than aggravating the situation. It should accumulate the persisting databases to issue a single and multifunctional ID card.
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