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Minister Bosun Tijani’s NIN Slip Purchased Online For N100
Gbenga Sesan, the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, has revealed that his organization bought Minister Bosun Tijani’s National Identification Number (NIN) slip for just N100.
Sesan said this on Monday while explaining a data breach and privacy concerns with Nigeria’s vulnerable identification database on News Central TV.
“NIMC’s statement (published on Saturday) suggests that it is Nigerians who are giving their data to these fake websites, but this is NIMC’s data, and we now have proof. We got the NIN slip of the minister, Dr Bosun Tijani; we got the NIN slip of the number one data regulator in Nigeria, Dr Vincent Olatunji,” Sesan said on Monday.
“We bought them for N100 each to demonstrate that this is not a joke. It means that your identity is for sale for N100. The real implication is that anything we can do with a NIN slip, we can get a SIM card with that. Who knows if anyone has the President’s SIM card right now? Or the National Security Adviser? A military general leading warfare in a place where they are dealing with terrorists?
