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At least to scale data capturing to about 65 per cent.” Speaking on the journey so far, NIMC official, Chuks Onyebunika, said 203 partners were licensed as data capture agents/front end partners, over 4,768 enrolment centres established across the nation, 8, 520 active enrollment devices used by NIN registration, 8753 enrollment operators trained, while 64.4 million lines have been linked with NIN.
[FILES] Applicants queue to obtain national identity numbers at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) office, in the Lagos state capital of Ikeja, – (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has revealed that at least 140 million Nigerians are yet to enroll for the National Identity Number (NIN) in the country, even though 64.4 million unique NINs have been issued to Nigerians.
The Director-General of NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, disclosed this at a webinar organised by the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) with the theme: “Citizen’s Identity Management in a Digital Economy.” Aziz said the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the NIMC, with support from other stakeholders in the industry, are working to ensure that about 140 million Nigerians, who are yet to get NIN, have it by March 2022, that is, in another six months time.
Further, Onyebunika said diaspora enrolment has been carried out in about 25 countries of the world; contactless biometric capture kit launched for enrollment, while 12 million mobile downloads of the NIMC Mobile Id app recorded with over 47 million digital profiles created.
Aziz, who said more than 150 countries now require an identity database, noted that “in the next six months, NIMC wants to ensure it enrolls the remaining 140 million Nigerians yet to be captured.
Nwoye, who disclosed that the operators are set to deploy about 80, 000 devices for NIN activation in rural and semi-urban places, said the industry has submitted about 100 million NIN as of August and a larger percentage have not been verified due to backend challenges on the part of NIMC.
NIMC said within the last one year, about 22 million NINs, following the mandatory directive of the Federal Government on NIN-SIM linkage, were added to the previous 42 million NINs, to increase the figure to 64 million.
On his part, the Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof.
Umar Danbatta, who was represented by a director, Abigail Sholanke, said the NIN policy is perhaps the best so far, stressing that the telecoms sector’s role in identity management cannot be overemphasised..
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