{"id":59886,"date":"2025-01-24T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59886"},"modified":"2025-01-24T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:40:57","slug":"nimc-to-launch-new-multipurpose-national-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/24\/nimc-to-launch-new-multipurpose-national-id-card\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMC to Launch New Multipurpose National ID Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has reaffirmed its commitment to launching the upgraded General Multipurpose Card (GMPC), a multifunctional identity card designed to replace the need for multiple identification cards.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, NIMC revealed that the card, developed in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS), will leverage the AfriGO domestic card scheme authorized by the CBN to enable cost-effective and transparent transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 26 commercial and microfinance banks are participating in the issuance of AfriGO-powered cards.<\/p>\n<p>The GMPC will serve as a physical ID, facilitating seamless access to various government and private services.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, NIMC is in talks with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to integrate voter identification, potentially creating a unified card for multiple uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has reaffirmed its commitment to launching the upgraded General Multipurpose Card (GMPC), a multifunctional identity card designed to replace the need for multiple identification cards. In a statement, NIMC revealed that the card, developed in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and the Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59888,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59886\/revisions\/59888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}