He said: “We need three to five years for full registration of citizens and we will be focusing on our core regulatory functions as well as some form of verification. “We are collaborating with INEC and NOA to ensure voter validation happens with the NIN. The NIMC Act aims at reinforcing data protection and privacy laws, mandatory use of National Identity Number (NIN) by Telecommunication companies, ensuring the NIN is a unique identifier for public servants and an upgrade of the automated biometric identification system ABIS.”The chief executive of VerifyMe, Esigie Agele revealed that only about 11 per cent of Nigerians have national identity given by NIMC while a lot of Nigerians carry multiple forms of ID as opposed to having a single identifiable ID.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2020 04:18 UTC