NIMC to Register 100m Nigerians in 30 Days

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) will register 100 million Nigerians within the first 30 days of the flag-off of the exercise, according to Dr. Chris Onyemenam, director- general of the agency

Onyemenam spoke in Abuja after a media tour of the company’s facilities, and its Data Recovery Centre in Minna, Niger State.

He decried the dearth of connectivity, power, geographical reach and front end funding of the porgramme.

Onyemenam,  said, in the past, Nigeria had focused too much interest on the issuance of identity cards, noting, however, that the mandate of NIMC is not to issue ID cards, but to issue National Identity Numbers (NIN) to duly registered persons in the country.

He explained that NIN is a non-intelligent set of uniquely assigned numbers to individuals upon successful enrolment, saying it consists of the recording of an individual’s demographic data, capturing of the 10 fingerprints, head-to-shoulder facial picture and digital signature, which are all used to cross-check existing data in the National Identity Database to confirm there is no previous entry of the same data.