126m Enrolled In National Identity Database Reflects Inclusivity – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has announced that Nigeria is present a continental person successful integer identity. Over 126 cardinal Nigerians person been enrolled successful the National Identity Database, which reflects the government’s committedness to the imaginativeness of a secure, inclusive, and digitally empowered Nigeria.

The President said this erstwhile helium delivered his code astatine the 2025 7th National Identity Day, organised by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) successful Abuja connected Tuesday, with the taxable “Public Key Infrastructure: Backbone to Digital Public Infrastructure. ” He stressed that his medication volition guarantee each citizen’s individuality is recognised, verifiable, and protected.

Represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, the president said the 126 cardinal enrolled citizens correspond visibility, empowerment, and inclusion, adding that down this fig are workers who tin present assertion their pensions without fearfulness of fraud.

He noted that “The National Day of Identity is simply a reminder that successful the 21st century, individuality is much than conscionable a record. It is the instauration of citizenship, the gateway to opportunity, and the anchor for nationalist security.

“This year’s taxable speaks to a aboriginal that is already unfolding. Public Key Infrastructure, oregon PKI, is not a distant aspiration. It is the backbone that supports our integer transformation, ensuring that the individuality of each Nigerian is secure, trusted, and usable crossed each platforms.”

He pointed retired that PKI is cardinal to the integrity of the country’s Digital Public Infrastructure, adding that it provides the unafraid integer spot upon which each services, including fiscal transactions, healthcare, education, agriculture, security, and governance, are built.

“Without PKI, integer interactions stay vulnerable. Without PKI, citizens cannot afloat spot that their information and transactions are secure. But with PKI, Nigeria tin physique an ecosystem wherever spot is guaranteed, fraud is reduced, services are streamlined, and each national tin confidently prosecute with authorities and backstage institutions.”

He commended NIMC and its dedicated workforce, nether the enactment of Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote said which is that successful a comparatively abbreviated time, the Commission has recorded important strides that presumption Nigeria arsenic a continental person successful integer identity.

Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo,  successful his remarks, noted that the  PKI is the acceptable of technical, organisational and ineligible arrangements that make integer trust. He said that astatine its core, PKI issues and manages integer certificates that alteration authentication, integrity, non-repudiation and confidentiality crossed physics systems. These functions let a authorities to confidently determination services, wallets, records and adjudication into the integer space.

“PKI is the method spine that allows individuality to beryllium utilized safely crossed government, finance, wellness and commerce: it is the quality betwixt integer convenience and integer risk. The World Bank’s ID4D enactment and planetary signifier astir DPI marque this constituent plainly. Identity systems execute worth lone erstwhile they are trustworthy, privacy-protecting, and interoperable,” helium said.

In her opening remarks, the NIMC boss,  Abisoye Coker-Odusote, said the committee is dedicated to expanding its nationalist individuality database and enhancing inclusivity done innovative technology.

She explained that the bosom of this effort is the integration of PKI, which ensures the security, privacy, and accessibility of idiosyncratic information and lays the instauration for a integer system that benefits each Nigerians.

“In enactment with SDG 16.9, PKI straight supports the 3 (3) halfway fundamentals successful individuality – inclusion (the quality for radical to person the individuality they necessitate to entree authorities services), extortion (providing the indispensable regulations and processes to safeguard individual’s information and individuality from misuse) and empowerment (the quality for radical to person power implicit their individuality and usage aforesaid to entree nationalist and backstage services).

“It is indispensable that we admit that astir 850 cardinal radical bash not person the basal recognition they need, according to the World Bank 2021 estimates. Nearly 500 cardinal of those without basal impervious of ineligible individuality unrecorded successful Sub-Saharan Africa, and 47 per cent are children who were not registered astatine birth.

“Through partnerships with telecommunications, banking, healthcare, and authorities services, NIMC is astatine the forefront of strengthening the individuality pillars to amended work delivery, trim fraud, and make a secure, inclusive, and empowering strategy for all,” she said.