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IDEMIA Smart Identity has reaffirmed its partnership with Nigeria's National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to upgrade the country's national biometric identification infrastructure, aiming to support a database of 250 million records
Nigeria is on course to reach a target of issuing digital ID to 148 million citizens by June 30 this year, the World Bank has said in its 2023 annual report.
DPI will be one of the central priorities of the United Kingdom’s new digital development strategy for low and middle-income nations.
It is estimated that 1.1 billion people do not have a digital record of their identity, 1.25 billion do not have a digitally verifiable identity.
It is time for Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to make a substantial increase to the funds allocated to the National Identity Management Commission.