{"id":62499,"date":"2025-03-10T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62499"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:07:02","slug":"avoid-unauthorized-nin-changes-nimc-warns-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/10\/avoid-unauthorized-nin-changes-nimc-warns-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Unauthorized NIN Changes, NIMC Warns Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has issued a stern warning to Nigerians, urging them to modify their National Identification Number (NIN), details only through its official self-service portal to prevent identity theft and data breaches.<\/p>\n<p>In a March 10, 2025 press release, Dr. Kayode Adegoke, NIMC\u2019s Head of Corporate Communications, stressed that all NIN modifications must be done via \u2018selfservicemodification.nimc.gov.ng\u2019 and warned against using unauthorized platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not attempt to modify your NIN data on any unauthorized websites, as this may compromise your personal information and put you at risk of identity theft,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The commission reassured Nigerians that its self-service portal is secure and reliable, allowing users to update their details remotely without visiting an enrollment center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has issued a stern warning to Nigerians, urging them to modify their National Identification Number (NIN), details only through its official self-service portal to prevent identity theft and data breaches. In a March 10, 2025 press release, Dr. Kayode Adegoke, NIMC\u2019s Head of Corporate Communications, stressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62499","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=62499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62501,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62499\/revisions\/62501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}