madam_oringo:

LWKMD! Obviously you are a dunce to speak so much foolishness or you are ignorant and have never lived in the developed world. So because you have a SSN, you don't require any residency status since you belong everywhere to every state?? See mugu! I guess you've been reading NL posts of Yankee based and started piecing it together so that you can talk as though you live here and know what you are talking about! LWTMB! Abeg go your village before you destroy the little left of your reputation in Nigeria.

Kairoseki77: ,

Are you a learner?
I am not being mean, I am genuinely curious.

I just have honestly never heard anyone string sentences together and still make so little sense.

In every country on the planet you must register as a resident of the state in which you reside. There is nothing "indigenous" about it. This is not your tribal census.

You utilize the resources of the state in which you reside. (So you must pay taxes) Are you planning on not paying taxes to give back to the state that provides for you? If so, please leave immediately. You are a deadbeat and will not be welcome anywhere on Earth, not even in your brother's house.

In the US, for example, your only form of identification is your STATE ID. You car, has a STATE license plate. You pay local, STATE, and federal taxes. You vote in your STATE elections, and even get a voter card issued by your STATE dept of elections. The reasons for this are endless.

Who told you that you must carry additional residency cards? You have ONE ID. That is for the state where you reside. Reside is a word that means where you live. Do you live in Lagos? Then you will need a RESIDEncy card. Are you visiting Lagos? Then you do not need one. No one should need to explain this to you.

Move to another state? Guess what! You go get a new residency card. Do you own more than one house? Then you pick a PRIMARY RESIDENCE, and register only in that state. None of this is complex.

We are not savages living in an endless jungle, like they must do in your village. Roaming like pack animals with no fixed address. You get a donkey for that one.



To have a functioning society people must have addresses, ID cards, and pay taxes. None of that exists in Nigeria, but it exists in Lagos State. If you can't handle being a big boy, pack your bags and go hug a lion.

Eko oni baje o. Fools will never slow down progress. On the contrary, we must provide for the disabled.


The level of confidence that you used to spout something so utterly daft is shocking. I am ashamed for you, your mother, your father, your forefathers, and your teachers (if you have had any).

[size=14pt]No credible census in Nigeria since 1816 –NPC boss[/size]

⁠Our Reporter⁠ ⁠August 6, 2013⁠ ⁠4 Comments


From FRED ITUA, Abuja

Chairman of the National Population Census (NPC), Dr Festus Odimegwu has alleged that no credible census had been conducted in Nigeria since 1816. According to him, census figures were regularly distorted for selfish reasons.

Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, Dr. Odimegwu gave a graphical analysis of how the various census exercises had been manipulated over the years. “No census has been credible in Nigeria since 1816. Even the one conducted in 2006 is not credible. I have the records and evidence produced by scholars and professors of repute.

This is not my report. If the current laws are not amended, the planned 2016 census will not succeed,” Odimegwu said. He recalled how staffers of NPC protested against commissioners during the 2006 census over alleged manipulation.

“During the 2006 census, workers locked out the commissioners over creation of new areas,” he said. Odimegwu further alleged that a former Lagos State governor (names withheld) falsified a census result some years ago.

“Nigeria has run on falsehood for too long. We must stop this falsehood and put a stop to all of these. The Boko Haram problem is partly as a result of that. Because the 2006 census was not correct, the former board of NPC was unable to publish the figures. “If they try it, there will be an uproar. We must make Nigeria work. We cannot do that unless we know the statistics. We cannot build infrastructure without demographic data. As long as the figures in Nigeria are wrong, corruption will continue to thrive. We must have an organised data before we can plan for Nigeria,” he stated.

He urged that Nigeria should either conduct a credible census exercise or forget about it. “It is either we do an accurate census or we will not do anything. We are committed to giving Nigerians a credible and reliable census. Nigerians are weeping up sentiments, but we have gone beyond ethnic sentiments. Nigerian children are suffering and many youths have no jobs,” Odimegwu said.

[size=14pt]How to Register[/size]

There are two (2) modes of registration:

Online, whereby the applicants registers via the internet. A unique reference number is generated online, which the applicant takes to their nearest registration point or office, for their biometric information to be captured.

Direct Registration at a registration point. Here the applicant’s data is entered manually by the registration officer directly into the registration data bank and their biometric information is captured.

For both modes of registration, when the individual’s biometric data is captured at the Registration Station, a temporary Registration Card is issued for the applicant to retain. This will be valid for 12 months from the date of issue. This serves as proof of registration and must be presented when the permanent residency card is printed and to be collected.

Applicants can register anywhere across the state, not necessarily where they live or work, but must pick up their printed residency cards from the registration office located within the LGA/LCDA of their place of residence.

Registration is not complete, until the biometric data of the applicant has been collected at the point of registration.

PROOF OF RESIDENCY AND IDENTITY

All applicants are required to provide proof of residence in the State.

Evidence of residency must be taken to the registration station where biometric information will be captured.

Two(2) proofs of residency and identification is required:
Rent Receipt/Utility Bill –of current place of residence

AND any one of the following:

International Passport.

Birth Certificate.

Employee ID card – must have address/logo of employer.

National ID card.

National Driver’s License.

Student ID card.

Tax Card or receipt.

Letter of Identification from Parent/CDA/Householder or registered association or organization.

All proofs of residency and means of identification presented must be valid at the time of registration.

The Registration officer will retain a copy of all items presented. Please bring originals and copies.

INTRODUCTION

The Lagos State Residents registration Agency (LASRRA) is to register all residents of Lagos State, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliations or nationality. As long as the individual resides in the State and intends to continue to remain in the State for 6 months or more, they are obligated to register.

CAPTURING BIO-METRICS OF CHILDREN

Person age 0-15 years are considered children in the registration of Lagos State residents’ initiative and as such are not required to have their biometric data captured until such time when the age of 16 years is attained.

In children their fingerprint ridges are proportionate to their stature and become more defined with general body growth, and as such produces variations in the fingerprint captured when compared over time. This can also be applied to their faces, which changes and becomes more defined with growth.

Given the above, the biometric of persons aged 15 years and under will not be captured during the registration of Lagos State residents.

REGISTRATION OF CHILDREN

For inclusion in the registration process – parents/guardians of children must present the following documentation to register a child:

Birth certificate of the child to be registered (a copy will be retained by the registering officer)

Two passport size photograph of the child at the time of registration. One will be attached to the registration receipt and the other attached to supporting documentation presented at registration.

Copy of registration receipt of person registering the child.

Details of parent(s) of child where person registering the child is not the legal parent.

Each child that is registered will be issued with a temporary registration card, with their photograph attached. This should be retained until a permanent card is printed.

KriTic24_A++:



You certainly made a reasonable point going by what you wrote about your Country of Residence. But at the same time, you can't compare our own Country where the people who professed to be leaders but are actually RULERS have refused to let anything meant for the masses work, to an advanced society. You will agree with me that there are laws that you YOURSELF will simply obey in those clime but will come to Nigeria here and flout or disobey because you believe you have nothing to gain or loose by obeying or breaking them here. Over there, you know you can be deported, and you will not want to come back to Naija a deportee.


Your point would have been as educative were it not that you 'SPICED' it up with those abusive words in-spite of your environment and exposure as if you were raised in the streets. Can't you correct a fellowman whom you are obviously wiser, more educated than, without showing it or sound abusive?
Learn to be CULTURED

@deeptesting...there are areas where i think i can agree with you. There was a time in Lagos that drivers was almost carring two licences when there were issues between the Lagos State and the Federal Government because of the harrassment of the officials of both Government.

Today in Lagos, we pay taxes to the State Government and uses the Federal roads, yet the state Gov. foot-drags fixing Federal Roads because funds spent on those roads will not be remitted back to the state in good time.

We live in this clime, so we are better positioned to picture what can follow any policy being implemented by a state. It is just a matter of time.

HoLEEsinner: Well, Mimiko did a project like this called Kaadi-igbeayo Ondo state and its not meant for deportation or what so ever, we don't know what this residents card project might lead to, I hope some people won't start paying residents permit? Concerning database and planning, its a nice project if well executed. Kudos to Fash.

telexfree1:

Phool.

d citizen:
@mama oringo, tell me what u have benefited from lagos state as a whole. I am born and bred in lagos. By birth, i am a bonafide citizen of lagos as a whole . If lagos state has grouse with the fed govt, she should go to abuja and address dat issues with the fed govt. Am not the one dat moved the capital from lagos to abuja. The man who finally perfected such movement is currently living in minna, the maradona himself who robbed mk abiola his presidential ambition. The focus of the federal govt now is in abuja which is the nigeria pride and lagos as it is is an abandoned project of the fed govt. What lagos need to do is to sponsor a bill dat will recognised lagos as a special state but i doubt if the bill will succed until lagos is reverted to its status as a former capital without indigene- and settler dichotomy. I mean lagos should remain on her own like abuja with fct minister without a governor. The project dat fashola is embarking upon is a waste of resources , time and energy,. U remember what happens to lagos driver license which has become a by gone issues. The money invested on dis project can be best channeled into poverty alleviation programme dat will help rehabilitaed osun and ibadan miscreants who have turn every bustop of lagos into their offices and extorting money from the danfo driver while the passenger bears the brute of high trnasport fare and a vast proportion of lagosians living in slums like ajegunle, agric ikorodu and abule tailor and others. The only thing dat i am benefiting from lagos is beautification and waste managment by lawma. I need much much considering my contribution to the development of lagos tru consistent tax payment and erection of building and other viable investment. We need a functional public schools and access to portable water and functional transport network as it is obtained in south africa and kenya not to mention uk and usa. We need more strategic and forward loooking leader who is effective in the management of scarce resources. There can never be lagos and abuja without oil money and federal government presence.

nnocurruption: Mr world traveller some countries do not practice this besides, there are billions of things that are already wrong about Nigeria that needs to be right before thinking about registering people in their respective states of residence. All am saying is that fashola should set his priority right, but Nigerian leaders only know the meaning of the word "priority" they don't understand it that is why they think legalising child marriage is what Nigeria needs. Dumb ass leaders they think like children

PointB: How many ID cards do one need to own to live in Nigeria?

There is the Passport, the drivers' license, National ID Card, Company ID cards, and now this?

Seriously, I think this duplications of ID card is pure waste of time and resources.

Personally, I think the (International) Passport and Driver's License should suffice in nearly all the cases. This Lagos State ID Card is either a pure waste of tax-payers money or designed for far more ulterior motive (666 on mind, Illuminati things lol). The National Population Census suffices for enumeration sake.

I will stick to my International Passport as I see no reason for another round of time wasting session in the name of ID cards. I know this will soon be challenged in the court.

By that Fashola's head make for interesting caricature. Reminds me of hammer head (of horror.)

Bliss4Lyfe:

Exactly, Stick to your Passport and Drivers License. Those are Federally approved documentation and if the Federal gov finds a need for ID cards, it should be a National ID Card.

Nigeria is not safe and you don't want ur personal information falling into the wrong hands or used by OPC for targeted killings of people of other origin, since Lagosians are diverse in origin. This should definitely be struck off or voluntary not compulsory.

berem: As long as it's free, me and my family got no problem with it. I hope also that security agencies in Lagos won't harass or intimidate Lagosians who refuse to register.

naptu2:

Here's why it's important to register:

Do you want to send your children/wards to Lagos State schools (free of charge or at subsidised rates)? Then you need to show your ID card/unique ID number.

Do you want to receive free healthcare at Lagos State hospitals? Then you need to show your ID card.

You will need to show your ID card/number when you pay Lagos State taxes.

Basically, you'll need to show your ID card when you want services from the LASG.

naptu2:

Here's why it's important to register:

Do you want to send your children/wards to Lagos State schools (free of charge or at subsidised rates)? Then you need to show your ID card/unique ID number.

Do you want to receive free healthcare at Lagos State hospitals? Then you need to show your ID card.

You will need to show your ID card/number when you pay Lagos State taxes.

Basically, you'll need to show your ID card when you want services from the LASG.

d citizen:
@mama oringo, What lagos need to do is to sponsor a bill dat will recognised lagos as a special state but i doubt if the bill will succed until lagos is reverted to its status as a former capital without indigene- and settler dichotomy. I mean lagos should remain on her own like abuja with fct minister without a governor.