Nigerians to get ID number
on JANUARY 4, 2013 · in NEWS
12:45 am

By  Chris Ochayi

ABUJA—In a move to curtail insurgency and other criminal challenges confronting the country, the National Population Commission, NPC, has commenced a comprehensive biometric capturing of all Nigerians, with a view to allocating every Nigerian number that would be associated with him or her from birth to death.


File photo: Crowd at the Abubakar Gunmi Central Market in Kaduna State Photo by Olu Ajayi.
Chairman, NPC, Chief Festus Odimegwu, who disclosed this in Abuja, said the biometric capturing would also be applied to all people resident in Nigeria.

He said the biometric identification would help to streamline the avalanche of foreigners into the country and reduce the scope of kidnapping, armed robbery and Boko Haram sect’s activities in the country.

He said: “We are going to do for the first time in Nigeria a comprehensive biometric census. To record all Nigerians, their biometrics, give them one number that will follow them from birth to death.”


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like a social security number?? Interesting!

Wow! That will go a long way in solving some of our issues especially security issues. Kudos to the govt buh they failed to give us a break down of how it is going to be achieved like the cost, the timeframe,how its going to be updated etc..... These are still critical issues that need to be ironed out* great idea by the way*

This is long overdue. With it, Nigeria will know those residing illegally, those that are criminals, and a workable data would have been created.
Commendable move.

This is a very good development.

Still know that Maga go use Palm Kernel register him goat for political reasons

With this number, the dead will live to vote in one way or the other

Long, long, long overdue. This is good on so many levels.

When will it start? How long will it take? How many people will be employed? How many machines will be utilized? How will the machines be powered? Will the numbers be randomly generated or manually assigned? Where will the data be stored? How many IT vendors will be used and what are their qualifications? Will the biometric features be eye scans, fingerprints or both? What additional layers of security will be embedded for both the collection and storage of data? What backup plans exist in case of data loss? In fact, is there a CONCRETE plan or are they just building castles in the air?

Please wake me up when you're serious.