By James Emejo
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) yesterday shed more light on the licensing of 203 public and private sectors agents to register people for National Identity Number (NIN), saying with the decentralisation of the process, 200 million Nigerians would be registered within five years.
It said the exercise, which raised the number of registration centres nationwide from 1,000 to 10,000, is meant to ease the bottlenecks in capturing more Nigerians on the national identity database.
The commission explained that adequate arrangements have been made to capture the data of 200 million Nigerians within the next five years.
It also allayed fears over the two-week deadline for deactivating Subscribers Identity Module (SIM) cards that are not linked with users’ NIN.