By Ezra Ukanwa ABUJA—THE National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, on Tuesday, said over 90 million Nigerians have been captured in the country’s identity database. NIMC Director-General, DG, and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Aliyu Aziz, disclosed this at a one-day roundtable for Desk/Liaison officers of ecosystem implementing partners, organised by the Nigeria Digital Identification for Development, […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke Ten days into the battle by experts to restore the collapsed national data infrastructure,  the technical glitch that paralyzed operations of banks, telecom operators, immigration and other critical agencies of government has continued to affect business operations across sectors. For instance, most of the telecom subscribers have continued to lament their inability […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke  The National Identity Management Commission says it has exceeded the 60 million mark in the ongoing unique NIN enrolment exercise for the National Identity Database (NIDB).  The Commission announced this in a statement signed by the Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke and made available on Thursday in Abuja, saying that the features couldn’t […]

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has so far registered 1.2 million Nigerians into the National Identity Database and has issued them with the National Identification Number (NIN) in Bauchi. Malam Isa Abdulmumin, NIMC Bauchi state coordinator, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria NAN in Bauchi. He said the exercise […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC has revealed that  56 million enrollees have so far been captured in the NIN data base. The marginal increase was made possible  since October, 2020 when the minister of Communications  and Digital Economy,  Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami took over the supervision of the agency. The figures […]