President Goodluck Jonathan on
Thursday inaugurated the National
Identity Card Project with a directive
that all eligible Nigerians should be
registered by the National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC) by
December 2014.
Jonathan gave the directive during a
ceremony at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja, where he also launched the
National Identification Number (NIN),
expressing displeasure at the
proliferation of data capturing activities
by private and public institutions in the
country.
“Aside from being unwieldy, the cost of
operating multiple discordant data bases
and infrastructure is unsustainable.
“Government cannot afford continued
proliferation of data capture activities.
Proliferation does not grant any
advantage in efficiency neither does it
make good economic sense. The growing
identity verification needs, therefore,
calls for harmonization and integration
of identity data bases in the
development of a universal service
infrastructure.
“To achieve this goal, the National
Identity Management Commission
should ensure that by Dec. 31, 2014 all
persons eligible for registration as
provided for in section 16 of the
National Identity Management Act No. 23
of 2007 are enrolled into the national
identity data base.“
According to the President, all
government agencies requiring identity
verification and authentication services
or involved in data capture activities
should align their activities with a view
to switching over to NIMC
infrastructure.
He said: “The Secretary to the
Government of the Federation and the
Federal Ministry of Finance must ensure
that these objectives, which are aimed at
streamlining biometrically-linked
databases and optimising scarce
resources, are accomplished in record
time
He expressed the hope that by the time
the projects were completed, they would
assist the National Population
Commission (NPC) in carrying out the
2016 census.
He stated that in spite of their separat

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He expressed the hope that by the time
the projects were completed, they would
assist the National Population
Commission (NPC) in carrying out the
2016 census.

This is a very good idea but am skeptical in the data management.

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