The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has enrolled 28 million Nigerians into the National Identity Database and issued them the National Identification Number (NIN) from 2012 to July 2022.
Its director-general and chief executive officer, Malam Aliyu Aziz, disclosed this during a “Lunch Time Seminar” organised by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) in Abuja.
Aziz, who spoke via zoom, said the Commission had not relented in its effort to establish the National Identity Database (NIDB), register citizens and non-citizens and issue a unique identifier NIN, among others.
He reiterated the commission’s commitment to provide identity authentication and verification services, harmonise and integrate existing ID databases, preserve, protect, secure and safeguard the data in the NIDB.
“NIMC works to collaborate with the public and private sector to realize the ID functions and regulate the Nigerian Identity sector.
“The Commission embarked on an enrollment strategy in 2012, which has grown exponentially since 2015. The current goal is to have enrolled 10 times the number of the previous year.
“The enrolment shows 60,000 in 2012, seven million in 2015, 28 million in 2017, 43 million in 2020 and 83 million as at July 2022 with about 18,000 enrolment centres across Nigeria.
“Others are the national ID policy for SIM card registration, national policy on digital ID for internally displaced persons, use of NIN for JAMB, completed assessments on technical, cyber security, social, environmental, financial, among others,” he said.
He urged BPSR to assist in building and strengthening collaborations and promote the participation of government agencies in the data capture services.
Also speaking, the director-general of BPSR, Mr. Dasuki Arabi, said the essence of the lunch time seminar was to help Nigerians keep abreast with reforms in public service delivery.
He said the NIMC DG was featured for the seminar so that Nigerians would appreciate the effort of the commission towards achieving a single national identifier.
“The national identifier is where existing forms of identification such as National Drivers License and International Passports would be aligned and synchronised,” he said.
(NAN)
