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The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has deployed a short message service (SMS) that allows members of the public to ascertain and verify the authenticity of their National Identification Number (NIN) and access other services.
The services provided by the SMS platform include the Personal NIN Lookup, which allows an individual check his/her NIN; the card status check, which check the print and delivery status of an individual’s National e-ID Card; the change telephone Number, which allows an individual change the phone number he/she used during enrolment to a new one where the old phone number is no longer available and the help, which allows an individual seek help on available services.
In the instance where the individual wants to check his/her NIN, he/she can send the key word “mynin” to any of the specified number and the result would be the sender’s NIN, provided the phone used for sending the request corresponds with the number the individual supplied to NIMC at the time of registration.
Where the individual seeks to change his/her telephone number, he/she sends “Changeme/FirstName/Surname/OldPhoneNo/Last4digitNIN” and the service will reply with the user’s full name and acknowledgement of the change from the old number to the new number.
In the same vein, where a “cardstatus” request is sent to the specified phone numbers, it returns the state of readiness (where applicable) of the card. Responses include: Card ready but not dispatched, Card ready, where the card is ready, it displays the batch ID and other details to enable user pick up the card), or card collected.
Airtel to train writers on digital journalism
Airtel Nigeria is set to train several professional writers and bloggers on digital journalism.
This training would come under the aegis of the journalism clinic and would start in Lagos on Monday, August 21, 2017.
Founder/Director of The Journalism Clinic, Taiwo Obe, disclosed that the Kaduna leg of the training would start on Monday, August 28, 2017.
According to him, the training would be facilitated by Dan Mason, an internationally-acclaimed digital journalism trainer, will last five days in each location, with three days for multimedia storytelling and two days for data journalism.
“The training is open to full-time and freelance journalists, practising in Nigeria, but we would not disregard applications by interested bloggers, who, like the journalists, must show sufficient cause why they should be considered for either of the modules,” said Obe, who added that, “no one person will attend the two, while preference would also be given to those who had not benefitted from the previous digital journalism training sponsored by Airtel”.
Airtel’s Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, explained his company’s sponsorship, “We strongly believe that the more our journalists are equipped, the better for our society.”
