{"id":65559,"date":"2025-05-10T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65559"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:44:19","slug":"dob-change-now-costs-n28574-as-nimc-raises-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/10\/dob-change-now-costs-n28574-as-nimc-raises-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"DOB Change Now Costs N28574 as NIMC Raises Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigerians seeking to correct errors in their date of birth on the National Identification Number database will now pay a revised fee of N28574, following a fresh hike announced by the National Identity Management Commission.<\/p>\n<p>This marks a steep 75 percent increase from the previous charge of N16340, according to the latest fee schedule released by the commission in a document titled Schedule of Fees, Licenses and Permits: Version 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>The new charges, which took effect after a decade of unchanged pricing, come amid rising inflation and what NIMC described as a need to align with operational realities and industry standards. The commission said the review is part of a broader effort to boost revenue and expand service offerings.<\/p>\n<p>While the first issuance of a NIN remains free, any correction to other fields like name or address now attracts a fee of N2000\u2014up from N1522. The re-issuance of a lost or damaged NIN slip now costs N600 instead of N500.<\/p>\n<p>For VIPs, premium enrollment now attracts a N20000 charge, while re-issuance of NIN slips costs N3500.<\/p>\n<p>Charges are even higher for Nigerians in the diaspora, with date of birth corrections outside Africa costing up to 60 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>NIMC justified the changes by citing inflation at 32.7 percent and said some services were increased by at least 20 percent, though certain categories were exempted due to their peculiarities.<\/p>\n<p>The commission has issued over 118 million NINs so far and says these adjustments are necessary to maintain quality service delivery in an increasingly digital identification ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye Nigerians seeking to correct errors in their date of birth on the National Identification Number database will now pay a revised fee of N28574, following a fresh hike announced by the National Identity Management Commission. This marks a steep 75 percent increase from the previous charge of N16340, according to the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65559","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\/65559","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65561,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559\/revisions\/65561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}