Heritage Bank gets NIMC mandate for national identity card project

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has appointed Heritage Bank as one of the participating banks in the National Identity Card Project.

The appointment mandates Heritage Bank to undertake the identification, registration and issuance of the identity cards to Nigerians.

A statement by the bank on Wednesday promised that it would deploy all its processes to ensure an efficient realisation of the goals of the national identity project.

The statement said, 'Heritage Bank promises to be a reliable and proud partner with the National Identity Management Commission on this laudable national project and will deploy its innovative technology and resources in harmonising and integrating all database systems in Nigeria to be able to identify every registerable Nigerian in this country, register and issue them the identity cards.'

The statement also quoted the bank's Executive Director, Mr. Niyi Adeseun, as describing the NIMC mandate as a significant call to national duty for the bank.

Adeseun said, 'Identity management is a critical part of every nation's progress and we at Heritage Bank will ensure that we support the NIMC goals.

'As with all the other mandates we have, we are committed to ensuring that we not only deliver maximum value but more importantly, revolutionise the concept of service delivery so that the public will enjoy more ease, zero time-wasting and absolute support that our highly technology-driven environment and systems are built around.'