How To Easily Check Your National Identity Number(NIN) With Your Phone

Checking your National Identity Number(NIN) has been made easy, with the aid of the USSD provided by The NIMC, you can easily check your NIN without visiting any NIMC office, this comes in handy if you are yet to be issued your temporary or payment identity card after enrollment or just don’t have the time to search for the card.

What is National Identity Number(NIN)

A national identification number, national identity number, or national insurance number is used by the governments of many countries as a means of tracking their citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents for the purposes of work, taxation, government benefits, health care, and other governmentally-related functions. The number appears on identity documents issued by several countries.

The Nigerian National Identification Number (NIN) is issued and managed by National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), and it is a set of eleven digits (e.g.: 134789009), assigned to 16+ years old Nigerians and legal residents by the Government

Since the federal government mandated that every registered SIM card should be linked with the owner’s Nation Identity Number(NIN) it becomes necessary to know your NIN so as to validate it with your Phone number, if you have enrolled for the National Identity Card with the NIMC but have not been issued your card(Temporal and Permanent) then you can check your NIN following the instructions on this page.

How To Check Your National Identity(NIN) Number With Your Phone

Follow the instructions below to retrieve your National Identity Number(NIN) using your phone, this can be done using any phone type since it’s USSD based

1~ Open your phone Dialer and dial *346#,

Then press 1 to check your NIN number, your NIN will be displayed, so can copy it

You will be charged N20 per check, so make sure you have up to that amount on your Phone

Checking your NIN is now free of charge

Note: To Successfully show your National Identity Number(NIN) via the USSD above the phone number(SIM) you are dialing the code on must be the one you used while enrolling for the National Identity Card.

That’s all on how you can check and retrieve your NIN number.