Driver's Licence Verification

Confirms a Nigerian driver's licence number and returns the holder's record.

POST /api/v1/id-verifications/identity/ng/drivers-license

Authenticate with your API key (x-api-key) or a bearer token.

Requires the KYC_NG_VERIFY and KYC_RESULT_VIEW permissions. Sending validations.data also requires KYC_DATA_VALIDATE; sending validations.selfie.image also requires KYC_IMAGE_COMPARE.

Request body

Name	Type	Description
`id`*	String	The licence number.
`isSubjectConsent`*	Boolean	Confirms the subject consented to the check. Must be `true`. Rejected before the provider is called, so a `false` costs you nothing.
`validations`	Object	Optional. Details to compare against the record we find.
`validations.data.firstName`	String	First name to compare.
`validations.data.lastName`	String	Last name to compare.
`validations.data.dateOfBirth`	String	Date of birth to compare, `YYYY-MM-DD`.
`validations.selfie.image`	String	Base64 or URL of a selfie to compare against the photo on file.
`metadata`	Object	Anything you like. Returned to you untouched.

Fields marked * are required.

Example

Request
{
  "id": "AAA00000AA00",
  "isSubjectConsent": true
}

Response
{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "id": "9f33360c-da69-4f66-856c-a709f339a5f2",
    "fullName": "John Doe",
    "documentType": "NG_DRIVERS_LICENSE",
    "documentCountry": "NG",
    "documentId": "AAA00000AA00",
    "requestAt": "2026-09-04T09:25:15.566Z",
    "requestUpdatedAt": "2026-09-04T09:29:18.870Z",
    "requestedBy": {
      "id": "dcd1e472-2be7-41b3-b812-cdec840225a0",
      "firstName": "sylvernus",
      "lastName": "akubo"
    },
    "type": "ndl",
    "email": "",
    "image": "data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAQEB\u2026",
    "gender": "female",
    "mobile": "",
    "reason": null,
    "status": "found",
    "country": "NG",
    "idNumber": "AAA00000AA00",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "metadata": {},
    "checkType": "ng.drivers-license",
    "firstName": "John",
    "isConsent": true,
    "issuedDate": "2020-06-12",
    "middleName": "",
    "dateOfBirth": "1988-04-04",
    "expiredDate": "2023-11-09",
    "validations": null,
    "dataValidation": false,
    "identityNumber": "AAA00000AA00",
    "imageValidation": false,
    "stateOfIssuance": "BENUE",
    "selfieValidation": false,
    "notifyWhenIdExpire": false,
    "allValidationPassed": true
  },
  "message": "Successfull!",
  "code": "info"
}

When there is no match

A check that reaches the provider but finds nothing still returns 200. Read data.status — it is found or not_found — rather than relying on the HTTP code.

Response
{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "id": "4ebe9ffb-d804-4639-8157-862c53ddb33f",
    "fullName": "",
    "documentType": "NG_DRIVERS_LICENSE",
    "documentCountry": "NG",
    "documentId": "AAA11111AA11",
    "requestAt": "2026-09-04T09:25:16.172Z",
    "requestUpdatedAt": "2026-09-04T09:29:19.680Z",
    "requestedBy": {
      "id": "dcd1e472-2be7-41b3-b812-cdec840225a0",
      "firstName": "sylvernus",
      "lastName": "akubo"
    },
    "type": "ndl",
    "email": "",
    "image": "",
    "gender": "",
    "mobile": "",
    "reason": "Data not found",
    "status": "not_found",
    "country": "NG",
    "idNumber": "AAA11111AA11",
    "lastName": "",
    "metadata": {},
    "checkType": "ng.drivers-license",
    "firstName": "",
    "isConsent": true,
    "issuedDate": null,
    "middleName": "",
    "dateOfBirth": "",
    "expiredDate": null,
    "validations": null,
    "dataValidation": false,
    "identityNumber": "AAA11111AA11",
    "imageValidation": false,
    "stateOfIssuance": null,
    "selfieValidation": false,
    "notifyWhenIdExpire": false,
    "allValidationPassed": false
  },
  "message": "Successfull!",
  "code": "info"
}