picture this: you start a small business and route payments through a POS agent instead of your personal account, thinking cash stays invisible. Except your BVN is tied to that POS transaction too, since agent banking now reports to the same CBN infrastructure. Every transfer, every withdrawal, every loan you take elsewhere becomes visible on the same identity thread.
Even relocating doesn’t help. Move to Lagos from Uyo, open a new domiciliary account for forex savings, and NELFUND’s system still sees you, because BVN isn’t location-bound, it’s identity-bound. The old days of defaulting on a student loan and vanishing into informal cash economy are gone. This isn’t 2015 NELFUND-adjacent programs with weak enforcement. This is a system built on the same rails banks use to catch fraud in real time. Pay up before the joke becomes yours.
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Avoid it like mad oh