The share of diasporan Nigerians with National Identification Numbers rose to 25.17 per cent in May 2023.
The National Identity Management Commission has registered 427,962 diasporan Nigerians because it launched its diaspora enrolment train in 2019.
There have been at the very least 1.7 million Nigerians residing in the diaspora in accordance with the World Bank. The world financial institution disclosed this in its ‘The World Development Report 2023: Migrants, refugees, and societies’, report.
It mentioned, “At a lower level of income, Nigeria is home to almost 1.3 million immigrants and is the origin for 1.7 million emigrants.”
In its May 27, 2023, replace, NIMC revealed that the variety of diasporan Nigerians in its database hit 427,962, with 178,799 females and 249,163 males.
When NIMC launched the service, it mentioned the train was geared toward capturing Nigerians residing exterior the nation into the National Identity Database, making certain they benefitted from the proudly owning NINs. Without NINs, diasporan Nigerians couldn’t renew their passports, and enrolment was not free.
The fee mentioned, “Nigerians overseas, nevertheless, even have the selection of enrolling totally free at any time when they journey again to Nigeria, supplied they’ve legitimate passports.
“Where, however, their passports have expired, they must obtain their NINs as a prerequisite for renewal of their Nigerian international passports or in order to acquire new passports.”
The service is on the market in 77 international international locations in accordance with a listing on NIMC’s web site. 40 of those international locations are African, 9 are in Asia/Middle East, 23 are in Europe/Oceania, and 5 are in the American area.
Meanwhile, NIMC has now captured over 100 million Nigerians into its database. It mentioned, “NIMC’s enrolment figures as of May 27, 2023 currently stand at over 100 million unique records. The highest cumulative enrolment figure of over 10.9 million was recorded in Lagos State.”
So far, 43.28 million females and 56.75 million males have NINs. The prime 5 states with NIN enrolments are Lagos with 10.92 million, Kano with 8.84 million, Kaduna with 6.19 million, Ogun with 4.19 million, Oyo with 3.89 million.
