Nigeria’s centralized digital ID program, designed to streamline access to public services and financial systems, is facing a major credibility crisis. Reports allege that insiders at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) have been selling citizens’ personal data on the open market. The compromised information reportedly includes National Identification Numbers (NINs), Bank Verification Numbers (BVNs), and photographs—details that can unlock sensitive services and bank accounts. Investigative journalists demonstrated that these records could be purchased using only a phone number, revealing a dangerous breach at the core of the system. The National Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation, warning of steep fines for any individuals or entities found responsible, while past enforcement has already led to the termination of more than 100 registration partners for misconduct.

With over 122 million Nigerians enrolled and the country now relying on the NINAuth verification platform for nationwide identity checks, the exposure risk is immense. The design of centralized ID systems creates a single point of trust, meaning one compromised access channel can silently open doors across multiple systems—governmental, financial, and biometric. Unlike a credit card number, identifiers such as NINs and biometric templates cannot be changed once stolen, leaving citizens with permanent exposure. This breach underscores the reality that while such systems offer efficiency and convenience, they also consolidate risk—making them attractive targets for exploitation and a potential building block for global surveillance infrastructure.

Centralized digital ID systems like Nigeria’s create the very infrastructure that Revelation warns will one day be used for economic and social control under the Beast system. By tying financial access, government services, and even biometric data to a single identity profile, such systems form a “choke point” where access to life’s necessities can be granted—or revoked—at the flip of a switch. Once in place, all that’s needed is the wrong authority with the wrong agenda. As Revelation 13:16–17 describes, a future world leader will cause “all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves” to be marked in order to buy or sell. While today’s systems may be marketed as convenience and efficiency, they are conditioning populations to accept the loss of privacy, the centralization of power, and the idea that identity verification is mandatory for participation in daily life—laying yet another brick in the road toward the prophesied global control grid.

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SOURCE: Reclaim the Net