From Aloysius Attah, Onitsha
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr Aliyu Aziz said its national database has hit over 93.5 million National Identity Number (NIN)/ enrollments.
He made the disclosure at a one-day Roundtable meeting organised by Identify for Development (ID4D) on Tuesday in Abuja.
The programme was organised for desk officers of the Nigeria Digital Identification Project’s ecosystem implementing partners.
Aziz, represented by the Director of Public Services, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said the new approaches had greatly impacted on the huge increase on the national database to the current 93.5 million.
“The unified ID system approach as well as the ecosystem model has had a tremendous positive impact on the enrollment figure.
“Currently, the National Identity Database has over 90 million (93.5m) records, which is a sharp contrast from just 7 million when I assumed office in 2015.
“The primary aim of the strategic roadmap for digital identification in Nigeria, is to simplify the approach to identification through simple data collection process and a centralised unique identification system for Nigeria and legal residents. This is a sharp contrast to the fragmented multi-issuing ID agencies of the past.”
He said there was the need to put in place a deliberate and long term plans to chart new pathways that would priotise national projects.