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The World Bank has provided $45.5m to Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission as part of the Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project.

According to the World Bank’s implementation report, the funds were disbursed in several tranches between December 2021 and April 2024, with disbursement still ongoing.

The Bretton Woods Institute approved $430m for the project in February 2020, with the $45.5 million allocated, accounting for about 10.5 per cent of the total project cost.

The project is co-financed by the World Bank’s International Development Association ($115m), the French Agency for Development ($100m), and the European Investment Bank ($215m).

“This will enable people in Nigeria, especially marginalised groups, to access welfare-enhancing services. The project will also enhance the ID system’s legal and technical safeguards to protect personal data and privacy,” the World Bank said in a statement.

The initiative aims to increase the number of Nigerians enrolled in the National Identification Number system.

Despite the project’s June 1, 2024, deadline to enrol 148 million Nigerians for NIN, the country remains behind schedule.

As of May, the number of NINs had risen to 107.34 million from the 104 million recorded in December 2023, according to NIMC Director General Abisoye Coker-Odusote.

The World Bank has termed the project’s progress as ‘moderately satisfactory,’ with NIMC reporting that 107.3 million NINs had been issued by April this year.

In April, The PUNCH reported that NIMC and IDEMIA Smart Identity, a digital identity company, agreed to renew their long-standing collaboration to upgrade NIMC’s biometrics.

The goal is to enrol 200 million Nigerians in the National Identification Number system by 2025.

“As of today, over 105 million NINs have been issued to Nigerians and legal residents. We want to assure Nigerians that within the next one or two years, we will reach our target of enrolling all Nigerians,” the commission said in a statement.

In 2022, national ID databases in Africa experienced an average daily downtime of 6 per cent, according to Smile Identity’s KYC report.

The digital ID project holds promise, but challenges remain in efficiently managing the data and ensuring the integrity of the identity system to prevent fraud and underage registrations.

On March 16, the media reported that a website known as expressverify was monetising the recovery of NINs and personal information from the Nigerian identification database.

The website reportedly had unrestricted access to NINs and personal details of Nigerians registered in the nation’s identity database managed by NIMC.

The incident prompted the Nigeria Data Protection Commission to heighten scrutiny of NIMC licensees after the website breached data protection protocols.

Last week, NIMC identified fraudulent websites, including idfinder.com.ng, verify.ng, championtech.com.ng, trustyonline.com, and anyverify.com, involved in illegal activities, warning citizens to beware of such sites.

NIMC reassured the public that robust measures were in place to safeguard the country’s database from cyber threats, adhering to ISO 27001:2013 standards and complying with the Nigerian Data Protection Law.

Experts had urged the commission to take urgent initiatives to curb multiple third-party accesses to its NIN database.

The co-founder and CEO of VerifyMe Nigeria, Esigie Aguele, noted that the issue of access proliferation should be addressed effectively.

“The proliferation is an inherited problem because it happened years ago, and these access points need to be clamped down,” Aguele told The PUNCH.

Source: https://punchng.com/ID4D-project-Nigeria-secures-$45.5m-W’Bank-funding-for-NIN-push

Nigerians are literally dying of hunger. Instead of addressing the main issues at hand, our leaders are here talking about NIN push.

Our leaders have unfortunately sacrificed us to Bretton Woods institutions. A day hardly goes by without you hearing the mention of World Bank and IMF. It will take pints of sweat and blood to escape their stranglehold

Lol, free money for black African Nigeria illiterate politicians to loots.

Aloota funds

These organizations should stop giving us money. It only fuels corruption and laziness

Dem wan chop the money

Loan again!

Please tinubu supporters kindly check the amount of money borrowed by this government and list what they have achieved with it. By the time you take off tribalism and sentiment out you begin to realize how much these guys have stolen within one year.

This Government Agency again. Who do we actually offend in this Country gan van

Will it reduce the price of things in the market ?

Thought the government is now talking about a three in one ID project, and must we borrow for every project

Keep securing loan up and down

.nigeria politician can not run this country. Most time they engaged in white elephant project like roads, nin and others. Our issues has always be maintenance. Any project that is not generating enough money in this country cannot be maintained. Stadium’s, roads, schools, nin and others.

The reason is instability in politics and everyone for himself. Everyone want to loots while its his or her turn

I really don't understand this stupid foreign organization like World Bank, United Nations, IMF etc.......that are still handing money to Nigeria as a country. Why? Despite all these corruption happening. These loans never advanced the standard of living of Nigerian people but you guys or institutions continue handing money to Nigeria. Even if the money is not in a cash form, Nigeria leaders or any of the Nigeria politicians are corrupt ballers, terribly corrupt ballers. Please, we the Youths will never pay you back all these money when eventually the smelling corrupt leaders are pushed out by us. This is a promise.....imagine, more as if they give you guys kickback to endorsed given these money out to Nigeria self.....nonsense

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/ID4D-project-Nigeria-secures-$45.5m-W’Bank-funding-for-NIN-push

Crazy government

Permzy:
The people giving nigerian politicians this money must have a hand in the looting.

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When they loot, where do you think they are taking the money to for safe keeping.

I wont be surprised if more than 80% of IMF and World Bank money are actually funds looted from Africa. Then they will give it to us as loan and we pay back with interest.

The tyranny of the wicked and the agendas of evil men keep pushing forward day by day

COMRADES, government of tinubu is nothing but a government of cashing out

Nigerians must resist this failure or massive corruption come 2027

wallrichy:
I really don't understand this stupid foreign organization like World Bank, United Nations, IMF etc.......that are still handing money to Nigeria as a country. Why? Despite all these corruption happening. These loans never advanced the standard of living of Nigerian people but you guys or institutions continue handing money to Nigeria. Even if the money is not in a cash form, Nigeria leaders or any of the Nigeria politicians are corrupt ballers, terribly corrupt ballers. Please, we the Youths will never pay you back all these money when eventually the smelling corrupt leaders are pushed out by us. This is a promise.....imagine, more as if they give you guys kickback to endorsed given these money out to Nigeria self.....nonsense

lol, the particular one is for their beast system

No one buying or selling without been traced must be supported gradually in phases

The loans are just piece of paper to them that print it, time is coming when you would have to join the new world order for all loans to be wiped up and nations begin afresh cos they can't even pAy

Gathering Data on Nigerians... This is a foreign syop

And they want another NIN The same card Jonathan's government launched

ID starts from birth, at LGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNS0znMULWI

Permzy:
The people giving nigerian politicians this money must have a hand in the looting.

The term of the agreement will amaze you, no be 9ja again

Permzy:
The people giving nigerian politicians this money must have a hand in the looting.

Gbammm !!!

As usual, share the money. nothing go happen

Na wah oh.... All these borrowing every Eke market days should really call for concerns as the positve impacts are no even being felt, instead negative news from every corner of the economy. Yoruba and hausa have completely disarmed Nigeria.

IMF funds what is needed by all while FG funds what the leaders need like hajj and jets.

So, what's wrong with us

With all these millions of Dollar aides...dem still dey purchase NIN for NGN 100


Who swear for us sef