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Didit
Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Nigeria Flag of Nigeria

NIN, BVN and Passport on one session, cross-checked against NIMC and the Nigerian banking industry, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Nigeria.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Nigerian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-NIN attacks targeting the explosion of mobile-money agents and digital wallets, NIN slip and Driver's Licence forgery, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance and stablecoin on/off-ramps. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022
  • Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023
  • CBN Financial Institutions Customer Due Diligence Regulations
  • SEC Rules on Digital Assets (2022)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Nigeria.

These are the supervisors a Nigeria verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them, no separate integration per agency.
  • CBN

    Central Bank of Nigeria, prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, Other Financial Institutions, and the broader payment system.

  • SEC

    Securities and Exchange Commission, capital-markets supervisor. Supervises Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) under the 2022 Rules on Issuance, Offering Platforms and Custody of Digital Assets.

  • NFIU

    Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, Nigeria's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022.

  • NDPC

    Nigeria Data Protection Commission, enforces the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. Governs every identity verification on Nigerian residents.

  • NIMC

    National Identity Management Commission, issuer of the 11-digit National Identification Number (NIN) and the NIN-NIMC ID Card. Maintains the authoritative national identity database.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Nigeria database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • NIN-NIMC ID Card, NIN Slip, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Permanent Voter Card.
  • Returns the name, 11-digit NIN, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • NIN-NIMC ID Card
  • NIN Slip · Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence · Voter Card (PVC)
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Nigerian regulatory watchlist (NIGSAC sanctions, National Assembly, Senate, House of Representatives, Lagos State Government, NDLEA, Sexual Offender Database).

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

Read the docs
Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check against NIMC and the Nigerian banking industry.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The `nga_national_id` check is the canonical first pass, name + NIN cross-checked against the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). $0.08 per successful query, ~100% adult coverage.
  • The `nga_bank_verification_number` check cross-checks the name + 11-digit BVN against the Nigerian banking industry database. $0.80 per successful query, ~100% banked-adult coverage, the right pick for any CBN-regulated flow.
  • Both services are pay-per-success, no user consent required, no contracts.
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Stage 04Cross-check against NIMC and the Nigerian banking industry

Cross-check against NIMC and the Nigerian banking industry , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Nigeria document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter, the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
Read the security & compliance dossier
EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Nigeria.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which Nigerian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Nigerian identity-verification flow:

  • Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment service providers, and Other Financial Institutions under the CBN Financial Institutions Customer Due Diligence Regulations.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Nigeria), capital-markets supervisor. Supervises Virtual Asset Service Providers under the 2022 Digital Assets Rules.
  • Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), Nigeria's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022.
  • Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), enforces the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. Governs how the verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Does Didit cross-check Nigerian identities against NIMC and the BVN database?

Yes, via two Database Validation services on POST /v3/database-validation/.

  • `nga_national_id` ($0.08, ~100% coverage), name + 11-digit National Identification Number (NIN) cross-checked against the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
  • `nga_bank_verification_number` ($0.80, ~100% banked-adult coverage), name + 11-digit Bank Verification Number (BVN) cross-checked against the Nigerian banking industry database.

Both services accept the field name in the request, return a normalized match result, and are pay-per-success with no consent required.

Is the NIN Slip accepted alongside the physical NIN-NIMC ID Card?

Yes. The paper / digital NIN Slip is the most widely circulating form factor in Nigeria, and Didit auto-classifies, captures, and OCR-parses both formats on the same hosted flow.

  • The NIN-NIMC physical ID Card carries the cleanest OCR template.
  • The NIN Slip is recognised via document-template detection; the 11-digit NIN is extracted with the same model.
  • Both formats route through nga_national_id against NIMC, the authoritative-source check CBN expects regardless of which form factor the user presents.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Nigeria?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML + NIMC NIN cross-check (plus optional BVN cross-check), done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Nigeria stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Nigerian users?

English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Nigerian users land on the English flow by default.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the Nigeria verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.
  • `nga_national_id` (NIMC), $0.08 per successful query.
  • `nga_bank_verification_number` (BVN), $0.80 per successful query.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Nigeria surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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