Nigerians in the Diaspora and the BVN joke

The Nigerian banks are threatening to suspend bank accounts of Nigerians in the Diaspora after the BVN deadline on 30th of June 2016. Until now the bank accounts of Nigerians in the Diaspora were migrated to Diaspora accounts if the account owners provided the following documents: Notarized utility bill 2 Attested Passport photographs Residence certificate from their host countries Notarized Bio-Data page of heir Nigerian passport Completed Diaspora migration form Completed corporate specimen signature Completed customer information update form Completed Diaspora supporting address form Completed corporate email indemnity form The Nigerian banks directed all inquiries about the BVN registration for Nigerians in the Diaspora to the following companies said to be responsible for the Diaspora BVN registration: Nigeria Interbank Settlement System PLC OIS - Online Integrated Solutions VFS GLOBAL If you contact these companies about Diaspora BVN registration locations, they will reply with these statements: Hello, Enrolment centers are being set-up in phases, as we cannot be in all locations at once. You will be informed if/when a center is opened in your country of residence. In the interim, kindly visit oisservices.com or vfsglobal.com to view a list of available centers close to you. If you visit the websites of OIS and VFS Global the charges are between 40 and 55 USD depending on the country and only the following locations for BVN registration are being offered until now: OIS - Online Integrated Solutions http://www.oisservices.com/ Amsterdam, Holland Ankara, Turkey Atlanta, US Beijing, China Dubai, UAE Guangzhou, China Houston, USA Johannesburg, South Africa Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Leicester, UK London, UK Los Angeles, US New Delhi, India New Jersey, US Paris, France Rome, Italy Shanghai, China Washington DC, US VFS GLOBAL http://www.vfsglobal.com/bvn/nigeria/index.html SAUDI ARABIA – AL KHOBAR SAUDI ARABIA - JEDDAH SAUDI ARABIA – RIYADH South Africa – Cape Town United Kingdom - Manchester AUSTRALIA - MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA -Sydney AUSTRALIA – Brisbane AUSTRALIA - Perth BRAZIL – SAO PAULO CANADA - TORONTO CANADA - VANCOUVER UKRAINE - KIEV No location has been opened in many countries until now and yet the Nigerian banks under instructions from the Nigerian Central Bank are threatening to end the BVN registration by 30th of June 2016 thereby blocking the bank accounts of Nigerians in the Diaspora from any transaction. It’s very hard to understand that the Central Bank of Nigeria cannot organize a simple BVN registration for Nigerians in the Diaspora. Every normal thinking person will assume that the Nigerian embassies abroad are best suited and will be used for such schemes activities. It’s the typical Nigerian problem of giving responsibilities to people who have no knowledge of the job they’re supposed to do