How to check your BVN on your phone

The Bank Verification Number (BVN) is an essential requirement for accessing comprehensive financial services in Nigeria. It serves as a unique security number for banks and other financial institutions to identify an individual with their bank account details. This number is assigned to individuals upon biometric registration, which involves identifying an individual based on their physiological attributes such as fingerprint, voice, and facial features.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced the BVN in collaboration with all Nigerian banks to address customer security data compromise and identity management challenges. The BVN has been used to identify customers since its launch in 2014. However, many people have difficulty obtaining their BVN and accessing financial services because they forget or do not save it.

Telecom providers in Nigeria enable users to check their BVN number on their phone without compromising their security. To check your BVN on MTN, Airtel, GLO, and 9mobile, ensure that the line you wish to use is the one you registered the BVN with. Then dial the USSD code *565*0#, wait for the 11-digit number to appear, and either copy it for immediate use or save it for later.

The BVN is like a security number that links all of an individual's bank accounts in different banks back to them. It is a unique 11-digit number allocated to an individual upon biometric registration. Biometric registration involves identifying an individual based on their physiological attributes such as fingerprint, voice, and facial features.

The CBN launched the BVN in collaboration with all Nigerian banks on February 14, 2014, to address customer security data compromise and identity management challenges. Since then, the BVN has been used to identify customers.

Many people have difficulty obtaining their BVN and accessing financial services because they forget or do not save it. Telecom providers in Nigeria enable users to check their BVN number on their phone without compromising their security.

To check your BVN on MTN, Airtel, GLO, and 9mobile, ensure that the line you wish to use is the one you registered the BVN with. Then dial the USSD code *565*0#, wait for the 11-digit number to appear, and either copy it for immediate use or save it for later.

The service is not free, and users will be charged 20 naira for the transaction. It is advisable to save the number for later use to avoid paying a fee every time you check your BVN.

Checking your BVN is not only the same process across all lines but also similar across all banks. This is because everyone is allocated one unique BVN that links all their accounts in different banks back to them.

Therefore, if you have accounts with all the banks in Nigeria, you will still have one BVN that links all of them back to you. Checking your BVN is a simple process that can be done on your phone without compromising your security.