NIN Fees in Nigeria (2026) — What NIMC Actually Charges

Enrolment is free, name modification is ₦2,000 per field, and date-of-birth correction is ₦28,574 non-refundable. NIN slip re-issuance is ₦600 at a NIMC centre or ₦1,000 through the self-service portal. Premium VIP enrolment at licensed lounges costs ₦20,000. Every figure on this page comes from the NIMC fee schedule that took effect on 2 May 2025.

Five NIMC services carry no NIMC fee. Anyone charging you for any of these is not a NIMC officer.

• First-time NIN enrolment at any accredited centre. The NIMC Director General has stated this publicly, most recently in July 2024.
• The first standard NIN slip issued at the close of enrolment.
• Pre-enrolment form completion at penrol.nimc.gov.ng. The pre-enrolment step is a convenience; NIMC charges nothing for filling it.
• NIN retrieval through the NIMC MobileID app, once you have signed up. The app itself is free on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
• vNIN generation through the MobileID app. A Virtual NIN token costs nothing to issue, although the relying party (your bank) may charge separately for whatever verification it performs against the token.

What the telco charges you for sending the USSD or SMS query is not a NIMC fee — it is the published airtime tariff and is covered separately below.

Every figure in the table is sourced to the NIMC fee schedule published effective 2 May 2025, summarised by News Express Nigeria, ITEdgeNews, Nairametrics, and PRNigeria. Where the figure on the live portal screen differs from this table, the published policy figure is the binding one and the portal usually catches up within a few days of a review.

The modification fees are where the May 2025 review bit hardest. NIMC describes the increase as reflecting a decade of operational-cost growth; the practical effect is that every correction now costs four to twenty-eight times what it cost in 2024.

• Name and other-field corrections — ₦2,000 per field on the self-service portal. Supporting documents typically include a court affidavit, a newspaper publication, and a marriage certificate where the change is marital. Pay one fee per field changed; correcting both the surname and a given name is two transactions.
• Date of birth corrections — ₦28,574, non-refundable. NIMC requires a digitalised NPC attestation certificate for those born before 1992, or a digitalised NPC birth certificate for those born after 1992. The fee is forfeit even if NIMC rejects the modification, so the document bundle has to be airtight before you submit.
• Address, phone, and email — each ₦2,000 per change. Address modifications need a utility bill, tenancy agreement, bank statement, or community-leader attestation. Phone and email modifications need OTP confirmation of the new value.

Detailed walkthroughs of the highest-volume modifications will live at how to correct your name on NIN and how to change date of birth on NIN. Both are listed in the sitemap; they render Coming Soon until those guides ship, then automatically activate.

NIN slip pricing varies by channel and slip type, but the price tag depends on a small set of axes.

USSD response time varies by telco; MTN and Airtel typically respond within seconds while Glo and 9mobile can lag at peak. The ₦50 charge for dialling *346# is published in the NIMC fee schedule but the deduction happens against the SIM's airtime balance, not against any NIMC account.

The card inquiry by SMS is the same ₦50, listed separately because the SMS path is a distinct service from the USSD menu. The in-person NIN retrieval query at a NIMC centre is ₦75 — slightly more than the remote channels, because the desk officer performs an identity check before disclosing the number.

For the full breakdown of the four lookup channels, see how to check your NIN.

The schedule that took effect on 2 May 2025 was the first comprehensive NIMC fee review in roughly a decade. Three things changed in scale:

• DOB correction rose from ₦16,340 to ₦28,574 — a 74.87 percent increase. NIMC's stated rationale was the procedural cost of vetting birth-certificate documentation, which has grown alongside inflation.
• Name and other-field modification rose from ₦1,522 to ₦2,000 — a 31.41 percent increase. The simplest correction tier still sits at one-fortieth of the DOB fee.
• NIN slip re-issuance rose from ₦500 to ₦600 at a centre; the self-service download was set at ₦1,000.

Coverage by Nairametrics, News Express Nigeria, ITEdgeNews, and PRNigeria all align on the same schedule. If you read older guides quoting ₦500 for slip re-issuance or ₦15,000 for DOB correction, those guides predate the review and are now out of date.

The DOB modification fee of ₦28,574 is the highest single charge in the NIN modification stack and the only one explicitly marked non-refundable on the portal. Two practical consequences:

• NIMC keeps the fee even if your modification is rejected. If the digitalised NPC birth certificate you upload is illegible, or the attestation is missing the right seal, NIMC declines the change — and the ₦28,574 stays with NIMC. The submission cost is the same whether the answer is yes or no.
• You only get one shot per submission cycle. A second attempt with a corrected document bundle is a fresh ₦28,574. Treat the DOB modification as a single-attempt action: assemble every document, verify each one against NIMC's published criteria, and submit when the file is provably right.

This is also why an in-person review at a court or a Commissioner for Oaths before you submit is worth the small admin fee — getting an affidavit endorsed badly costs ₦28,574 the first time and again on retry. Treat the DOB fee as expensive insurance for getting the documents right first time, not as a deposit you can recover.

The NIMC fees on this page are the only NIMC charges. Several adjacent costs sit outside NIMC entirely and are often confused for NIN fees:

• Bank charges for opening or refreshing an account against your NIN — banks may charge their own KYC fees, but those are banking costs, not NIMC costs.
• Telco airtime for the USSD or SMS path — covered above, but worth noting separately because some commentary frames the ₦50 as a NIMC fee. It is the telco's airtime tariff for the USSD session, listed in the NIMC schedule for reference rather than billed by NIMC.
• Court fees for affidavits and sworn declarations — the document bundle for a name or DOB correction includes a court affidavit. The court charges its own administrative fee for endorsing the document. None of that money reaches NIMC.
• Newspaper publication for name changes — Nigerian newspapers charge for printing change-of-name notices. The cost depends on the paper and the size; budget a few thousand naira.
• NPC birth certificate — issued by the National Population Commission, with its own administrative fee at the state office.
• GMPC card pricing — partner-bank-set, not part of the NIMC schedule.

For comparison context with Nigerian government IDs that bundle higher headline fees, see Nigerian passport fees in 2026 — the passport starts at ₦100,000 and the NIN-related corrections sit alongside that.