The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said, the change of date of birth on the National Identification Number (NIN) database can only be done at NIMC enrolment centres.
This is even as the commission has informed Nigerians that they would need to provide an electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (e-CRVS) certificate from the National Population Commission(NPC), before change of date of birth and other modifications can be effected.
Recall that president Bola Tinubu last month launched the e-CRVS of the NPC, a platform that digitalizes all civil documentation such as birth and stillbirth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration, and death.
The chairman of the NPC, Nasir Kwarra said the e-CRVS was part of Nigeria’s way of complying with the resolutions of the African Ministers Conference held in 2022 and scaling up the automated process in Nigeria, adding that, the system provides a digital certificate in all cases, an accessible verification platform to registered organizations, and has a central management system (dashboard) that depicts and analyses collated civil registrations into vital statistics for proper decision-making.
“This process marked a complete departure from traditional paper-based recording of vital events to a state-of-the-art digital solution that conforms to international best practices. The eCRVS system would revolutionize how vital events were recorded, tracked, and analyzed in the country,” Kwarra affirmed.
The NIMC, in line with this new directive, posited that, copies of other valid documents such as identification and application letter for modification will now be addressed to the DG/CEO, NIMC.
Prior to this new arrangement, only an affidavit and the payment of N15,000 were required for the modification of age and other modifications on the NIN system.
The commission stated that under the new standards, a person can only modify their date of birth once in his lifetime and at NIMC enrolment centers. It issued a warning that changing a person’s date of birth or making other types of modifications is prohibited for its approved agents.