National Identity: Over 126 million Nigerians now captured on NIMC database – Tinubu

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: President Bola Tinubu connected Tuesday declared that Nigeria has crossed a large milestone successful its nationalist individuality drive, with implicit 126 cardinal citizens present enrolled successful the National Identity Management Commission NIMC database.

Represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Senator George Akume, the president made the declaration astatine the 7th National Identity Day Celebration successful Abuja.

He described the accomplishment arsenic “126 cardinal stories of visibility, empowerment and inclusion”, stressing that integer individuality is nary longer a bureaucratic workout but the instauration of citizenship, security, and accidental successful the 21st century.

“Identity is power, protection, and participation. Every idiosyncratic counted is simply a measurement person to a stronger nation,” the President said.

This year’s theme, “Public Key Infrastructure PKI: Backbone to Digital Public Infrastructure”:underscored the relation of exertion successful securing the country’s integer transformation. PKI, a strategy that provides unafraid integer trust, is present being integrated crossed governance, banking, healthcare, acquisition and nationalist information systems.

Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo who present supervises the Commission, said PKI volition “make integer authorities services verifiable, auditable, and internationally credible.”

He noted that the national authorities is aligning reforms successful immigration, passport issuance, and borderline absorption with NIMC’s individuality infrastructure to fortify nationalist information and planetary spot successful Nigerian credentials.

Dr Tunji-Ojo added that Nigeria indispensable dainty individuality infrastructure arsenic “strategic nationalist infrastructure”, aligning with planetary standards for interoperability and trust.

Both the President and the Minister commended Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, the Director-General of NIMC, for what they described arsenic a historical turnaround of the bureau successful conscionable implicit 1 year.

Coker-Odusote reported that implicit 2.5 cardinal backlog records were cleared, portion mobile/web self-service platforms processed implicit 500,000 grounds updates.

“More than 800 mobile enrolment devices were deployed nationwide. The nationalist database was expanded to grip 250 cardinal records, up from 100 million. Over 200 diaspora centres and ward-level enrolment via NYSC members were introduced”, she stated.

According to her, much than 449,000 students person accessed acquisition loans worthy N86.35 cardinal done the National Education Loan Fund NELFUND utilizing their National Identification Numbers NIN.

She besides highlighted however the NIN has been integrated with banking, SIM registration, agriculture subsidies, pensions, humanitarian assistance and societal concern schemes.

The NIMC brag broke down advancement into 3 pillars: inclusion, extortion and empowerment.

On inclusion, she said implicit 75% of inmates successful correctional facilities are present enrolled; diaspora enrolment has improved by 52%; and integration with the National Population Commission is boosting commencement registration.

She said NIMC has partnered with the Nigeria Police Cybercrime Centre to tackle individuality fraud, portion caller information standards and PKI integration safeguard citizens’ data.

According to her, farmers, students and susceptible groups are present straight benefiting from subsidies, loans and payment programs tied to verified integer identity.

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