With effect from December 21, 2020, any applicant for national driver’s licence in Nigeria must present his or her National Identification Number, NIN, before being captured for any class of the licence.
The announcement was made by the spokesman of the Federal Roads Safety Corps, Mr. Bisi Kazeem.
According to him, the decision followed federal government’s directive on the harmonisation of citizens’ data by relevant agencies.
Kazeeem added that there would be no waiver for anyone.
He stressed the need for a harmonised database on citizens’ information which he said was critical to resolving the challenges of identifying individuals to assist security agencies in data collation and quick retrievals to address some of the national security challenges.
He called on members of the public, particularly, those going for their driver’s licence processing to take note of the directives and carefully follow the procedures for obtaining their NIN from the National Identity Management Commission which must be verified to be authentic, before action could be taken on their application for the licences.
Kazeem further stated that all numbers presented by the applicants must correspond with what NIMC issued to individuals for a harmonised database.
The Corps Public Education Officer solicited the cooperation of members of the public to make the policy a success in the collective interest of the nation and commitment to building and maintaining a credible national database on citizens.
He assured that FRSC remained committed to supporting the federal government in its resolve to tackling the challenges of citizens’ identification and national security.
While reassuring the driver’s licence applicants of improved services at the licence processing centres across the country, the FRSC spokesperson reiterated the earlier messages of Corps Marshal Oyeyemi that improved service delivery remained the center point of the Corps’ operations.
He further stressed that with due compliance by all driver’s licence applicants, the process of physical capturing at the Licence processing centre would be smooth in line with the improved processes put in place.
