President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday charged government agencies to harmonise the collection and usage of biometric data instead of replicating efforts.
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The President gave the charge after being briefed by Chairman of the National Population Commission, Mr Eze Duruiheoma, in Abuja.
Government organizations that collect biometric data include the National Population Commission, National Identity Management Commission, Federal Road Safety Commission, and Independent National Electoral Commission, among others.
Buhari wondered why each agency would gather its own biometric data, when such data could easily be shared.
“It will be more cost effective if you work together. It helps even the credibility of the election process, as Nigerians of voting age can be identified easily’’, he said.
Buhari added that all the agencies should work collaboratively, instead of going in different directions, stressing that adequate data was necessary for planning and development in any country.
Duruiheoma had briefed the President on what would be required for the commission to conduct national census 2016, 10 years after the last exercise, as stipulated by the United Nations.
A national population census, the chairman said, would cost about N273 billion, while about N10 billion of the amount would be needed immediately.
He told the President that a biometric-based census was being proposed because it would eliminate multiple and ghost respondents, while making the outcome easy to audit.

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We are gradually becoming a country, not just a gathering of some fools.

Yes

bullsh!t

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adrusa:
We are gradually becoming a country, not just a gathering of some fools.

oh dear...

good development

What about NIMC? No wonder some call him a d.ullard

Sincere9gerian:
What about NIMC? No wonder some call him a d.ullard

good

I hope the man from Otuoke is watching to see how a country should be run. It does not matter anyway, his time don pass, na jail remain

Good one. Long overdue.

Baba Allah bless you

USarmy:
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C ur life?

USarmy:
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Baba Awon wailers

Sincere9gerian:
What about NIMC? No wonder some call him a d.ullard

during the time of your phd holder, all these agencies were doing seperate registrations and cloning database unnecessarily, thereby wasting precious time and finances.
The NIMC database should not be tampered with cos it should be a master database for social security...
All these unsolicited sms' s that we recieve now and then are as a result of useless registrations we have done, cos some of these people we have registered with are the ones selling our identity and contacts/phone nos.
Mr. wise man, there is nothing wrong with having another database as suggested cos one may be hacked and so the other can still serv as a backup.

Chai Buhari why? Why are you making things difficult for people who swore to never see this country move forward?

Why are you making things embarrasing for those fools who are very law abiding when they travel abroad, but come back to their country and treat it like shit?

Why are you dealing a hard blow on ordinary civil servants who have become billionaires at the expense of uncompleted and abandoned projects?

Buhari carry go Jare! You're such a patriot. History will be kind to us for voting you into office...

Wailers how far?

God bless Nigeria

This was supposed to have been done since

Plus ATM, BVN and SIM registration too. All these collects biometric data- something that should be collected once.

YoursGEJ:
I hope the man from Otuoke is watching to see how a country should be run. It does not matter anyway, his time don pass, na jail remain

my broda, see waec holder performance in 3 months compare to 6years of a phd holder.

That nice, I have been looking forward to this. NIMC and Banks should also be consolidated.
Am still waiting to have a 'three digit toll free number' which would lead to a response room like '911'. God bless PMB.

Yes, I mean NIMC.

This is long overdue...I am sure wailers will commend something good for once in their wailing life

i feel proud once again in my life

1love4all:

my broda, see waec holder performance in 3 months compare to 6years of a phd holder.

Imagine the bigots gave him a chance when he was much younger, 2003, 2007

And Buhari's govt. is real Jonathan regime was terrible nightmare we all have awaken from! May God protect Buhari against the clans and coalition of unrepentant criminals! Amen!

This is another great moves and achievements of this new administration! !!