The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC has only been able to meet 47.6 per cent of the Federal Government’s monthly target of 2.5 million registrations in the first eight months of the year.
This is as the number of Nigerians with National Identification Numbers, NINs increased to 102.39 million in August despite a slowdown in the number of enrolments.
According to the NIMC data, enrolment has fallen by 35.14 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of the year as only 8.36 million people have enrolled for NIN so far this year from the 12.89 million people that had enrolled as of July 7, 2022.
NIN enrolment per month on average is 1.19 million per month in the first eight months of 2023. The data indicated that the country is falling short of its 2.5 million National Identification Number enrolment target per month as set in the National Development Plan 2021-2025.
The government revealed that the NIMC plans to register an additional 100 million people in three years and has embarked on a massive registration drive.
Commenting on the NIN enrolment for the month, NIMC said, it’s enrolment figures as of August 28, 2023, currently stand at over 102.39 million unique records. The highest cumulative enrolment figure of over 11.17 million was recorded in Lagos State.”
At a recent dinner in partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri, affirmed the bank’s collaboration with NIMC to ensure the successful rollout and registration of digital national IDs in the country.
He restated the commitment to provide at least 148 million people of working age with a digital national ID by the middle of 2024. He noted the potential of leveraging digital technologies to drive transformation
