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Nigeria’s national identification system providing a unique number for citizens and residents. As of 2025, over 120 million Nigerians have been registered for NIN, which is increasingly mandatory for accessing mobile phone service, banking, voter registration and other critical services. To learn more, visit the NIMC website.

Adoption data

This section provides insights into the adoption of Nigerian NIN among users in Nigeria.

Provider ID

This is the unique identifier for this digital ID provider in the GBG GO system.
Provider IDnigeria-nin-lookup-2

Compliance

This section outlines compliance and regulatory requirements for integrating this digital ID provider.
Compliance dataStatus
Locality requirementsNone
Scheme-level restrictionsNone
CertificationsNone

Supported attributes

The following attributes are returned when Nigerian NIN is used for identity verification:

Always returned attributes

The following attributes are always returned from a successful verification from this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
firstNameUser’s first name
lastNamesUser’s last name
dateOfBirthUser’s date of birth
sexUser’s gender
document typeType of identity document
document numberIdentity document number
nationalIdNumberMatched national ID number
match firstNameFirst name from the matched record
match middleNameMiddle name from the matched record
match lastNamesLast name from the matched record
match sexGender from the matched record
match dateOfBirthDate of birth from the matched record

Sometimes returned attributes

The following attributes are only sometimes returned from a successful verification from this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
middleNameUser’s middle name
phoneNumberUser’s phone number

Required input attributes

The following attributes are required as input to perform identity verification with this ID Provider.
FieldDescription
firstNamePerson’s first name
middleNamePerson’s middle name
lastNamePerson’s last name
phoneNumberPerson’s phone number
dateOfBirthPerson’s date of birth
genderPerson’s gender
nationalIdNumberNational identification number