By Na’ankwat Dariem, Abuja
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says it has issued the National Identification Number (NIN) to 102.39 million Nigerians as of August 28, 2023.
The Commission disclosed this in its NIN enrolment information simply which additionally reveals that enrolment for the ID quantity was but to choose up after slowing down in July.
In August, the whole enrolment determine stood at 743, 085, which is barely increased than the 634,603 recorded in July this 12 months.
The enrolments within the final two months had been low contemplating that the database had been rising by a median of 1 million in previous months.
However, with the current appointment of a brand new Director-General, Abisoye Coker-Odusote, NIMC stated it has began working to speed up the issuance of the digital identification token consistent with the renewed hope mandate of President Bola Tinubu’s led administration.
According to the NIMC information, Lagos State maintained the highest spot by recording the best variety of enrolments within the nation with 11.17 million Nigerians captured within the State.
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This was adopted by Kano State, which recorded 9.07 million register.
The two most populous states in Nigeria, in accordance to the information from the National Bureau of Statistics, have maintained the lead in NIN enrolment for the reason that starting of the train.
In phrases of the gender distribution of the enrollees, the NIMC information reveals that 58.15 million, representing 56.8% of Nigerians thus far captured within the NIN database are male. On the flip facet, 44.23 million, representing 43.2% of the whole enrollees are feminine.
Aside from Lagos and Kano, different states that made the highest ten by way of the variety of enrolments embody Kaduna with 6.3 million; Ogun with 4.3 million; Oyo with 3.9 million; Katsina 3.5 million; FCT with 3.4 million; Rivers 3 million; Bauchi 2.7 million and Delta which additionally recorded 2.7 million.
NIMC information reveals that the ten states with the bottom NIN issued are Akwa-Ibom 1.7 million, Imo 1.7 million, Kogi 1.7 million; Enugu 1.64 million, Yobe 1.6 million, Taraba 1.47 million, Cross River 1.17 million, Ekiti 1 million, Ebonyi 818,173, and Bayelsa 642,233.
The slowdown in enrollments in August might additional have an effect on the nation’s means to meet the World Bank’s goal beneath the Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) undertaking. Under the undertaking phrases, Nigeria is anticipated to have issued 148 million NIN by June 2024.
Even with a median of 1 million enrolments month-to-month, Nigeria will not be sure to meet the deadline which is now lower than a 12 months.
Aside from issuing NIN to 148 million Nigerians by 2024, the Bank listed different targets to embody the issuance of NIN to a minimum of 65 million feminine Nigerians by June 1, 2024, in addition to 50 million NIN to kids beneath 16 years of age.
