Stop learner ID rollout, NIN enough – NANS tells Nigerian govt 

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called connected the Federal Government to halt the planned rollout of the National Learner Identification Number (LIN).

The pupil assemblage insisted that the existing National Identification Number (NIN) is capable for Nigerian students.

In a connection signed by its President, Akinteye Babatunde Afeez, the pupil assemblage described the projected learner recognition fig arsenic an unnecessary duplication of Nigeria’s existing recognition system.

NANS argued that determination was nary request to present different recognition fig erstwhile students already person the NIN, which is recognised arsenic the country’s authoritative means of identification.

“There is nary justification for imposing different recognition fig connected Nigerian students erstwhile the National Identification Number (NIN) already exists arsenic the nationally recognised means of recognition for citizens,” the relation said.

“The authorities should fortify and maximise the existing National Identification Number strategy alternatively of creating a parallel recognition structure,” NANS said.

“Students were not ...