Dr. Isa Pantami, the Federal Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, has indicated that any Nigerian without a National Identification Number (NIN) risks 14 years imprisonment. The Minister disclosed this in a recent submission at the weekly Presidential Media briefing organized by the Presidential Communication Media Team. In his submission, he said; “Based on the requirement by law each and every citizen and legal resident must obtain his No country will be successful in education, health, budget planning or national planning without data base of its citizens in place. What I inherited in the database was less than 20 per cent of our population. But we want to ensure that before we leave office we would look at the database and be proud of our country.”
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