NIMC and Mastercard Presents new National ID Card with electronic payment feature

Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard have collaborated to roll-out an initial 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability.

The 13 million cards will form part of a pilot program to be issued to citizens who are 16 years and older and those who have been residents in Nigeria for more than two years.

The smart ID cards are coming with immediate payment capability’s courtesy of MasterCard’s prepaid payment technology. The cards are also reported to come loaded with 12 other applications.

Let's hope this ID card does not end up to be the same story as the first which most people who registered never got to collect theirs.