NIMC Enrols 6m Nigerians into National Register

Chris Onyemena, director-general, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the commission has enrolled about six million Nigerians so far into the national register.

Onyemena who stated this when he presented Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives with his identity card in Abuja, explained that there are 404 NIMC enrollment centres across the local councils in the country and urged Nigerians to avail themselves of such centres for enrollment.

“We followed a process that was both intended to create awareness between what we have done before and what we are doing now, and that will also make sure that we sustain what we are doing on a long time basis,” he said.

“So there is a distinction between identity card management, when viewed from a process that enables you to identify the individual and update the records of individual and the use to which you put that infrastructure that was called identity management.”

He added: “There is a distinction between the process of enrolling legal resident, where we confirm that the person is legally resident, and the process for enrolling a Nigerian who is a citizen. We require from you reader document in this case, while the citizen enrollment can include even an attestation.”