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New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet

Posted by samzenpus on from the identification-and-credit-report-please dept.

First time accepted submitter Adam Oxford writes Nigeria's National Identity Management System — which aims to bring together citizen information databases as diverse as driving licenses and tax returns — was introduced last week and includes a prepay MasterCard wallet. Civil liberties groups are naturally wary about the project, but proponents see it as a way to get financial services to the masses. From the article: "The director general of the commission which will implement NIMS, Chris 'E Onyemenam, said at the launch that the card will eventually be used for border control as well. 'There are many use cases for the card, including the potential to use it as an international travel document,' Onyemenam said. 'NIMC is focused on inclusive citizenship, more effective governance, and the creation of a cashless economy, all of which will stimulate economic growth, investment and trade.'"

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  1. 419 by MPAB · · Score: 1, Funny

    'nuff said!

    1. Re:419 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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  2. Oh hello, submitter and author of original article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This appears to be a trend on /. recently: Plugging your own writing, often no more than polished blogs, published on some web-rag. Not that much a problem if you both have something to say and don't over-use the plugging. If either, or increasingly, both aren't true, then it gets grating. Even worse if the website is unreadable due to incessant reinventing of the wheel, badly, using gobs and gobs of javascript where a little html3 would have done Just Fine. But even if that's all sorted, it still would be courteous to admit your affiliations.

  3. "and the creation of a cashless economy, " by triso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nigeria already hes a cashless economy Nobody has any money.