The recent resurgence and continued anti-immigrant campaigns in South Africa, spearheaded by groups such as March and March and the Dudula Movement, has once again thrust Nigerians into the centre of a contentious continental debate. Their central claim is both familiar and troubling: Nigerians are allegedly responsible for a...
National identity
The news wafted through the ever vibrant Nigerian social media firmament announcing a historic record breaking information about a surge in the number of enrollees in the National Identity Database (NIDB). The enrollees, comprising citizens and legal residents now hits 136 million enrolment mark, which follows the diligence of...
For over 100 years, Northern Nigeria has been held together by a politically contrived twofold ethnic fusion expediently branded as “Hausa-Fulani”. It has served as an instrument of cohesion that aggregates demographic weight for political relevance. Now, however, beneath the artificial ethnic construct, a quiet shift is underway. The shift is...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has observed that some unscrupulous individuals, cyber cafes, and organizations’ are engaged in indiscriminate printing of unauthorized ‘NIN’ cards and charging unsuspecting members of the public exorbitant fees. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by by...