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NATIONAL IDENTITY DATABASE UNDER WAY- DG NIMC

The Director General, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Chris ‘E Onyemenam disclosed yesterday that plans are in top gear for the establishment of a national identity database in accordance with section 14 of the NIMC Act NO. 23 of 2007.
Speaking recently during a courtesy visit on the Management of Leadership Newspapers Abuja, Mr. Onyemenam noted that the Commission is currently verifying the database from the registration exercise carried out in 2003 by the defunct Department of National Civic Registration (DNCR) with a view to incorporating it into the proposed National Identity Database.
He noted that the establishment of NIMC which is government’s major reform instrument in the Identity Sector, represents a paradigm shift from the historical focus on identity card issuance to national identity management.
According to him, by Sections 5 and 14 of the Act, the NIMC is responsible for creating, managing, and operating the National Identity Database including the harmonization and integration of existing identification databases in government agencies.

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The NIMC boss who urged the media to partner with the Commission in achieving its set target said the present effort is focused primarily on identity database management which will eliminate duplication of efforts and resources in most government agencies as well as achieve integration and harmonization of the various databases in the agencies like Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), INEC, National Health Insurance Scheme, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)etc. while curbing identity- related fraud and vices.

He stressed that with the creation of the National Identity database and the related Information Technology infrastructure, various government and private sector and institutions will be assured of having a secured and reliable means of authenticating the identity of persons they are dealing with. The era when citizens were repeatedly required to give the same personal information to different agencies of government or the private sector institutions would be over. Particularly Banks would very soon stop bordering about utility bills.
He remarked that “the Commission is conscious of the phenomenon of registration fatigue. occasioned by the periodic calling out of Nigerians for one form of registration or the other. So we are looking forward to establishing user friendly Registration Centres that will be open 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month and 52 weeks a year. This will take time to institute because there are technology design and funding issues involved and these are being procedurally and professionally addressed. Also to ensure that existing infrastructures are utilized, verification and harmonization procedures are being implemented with a view to remodeling them to fit into the proposed database network”.
In his remarks the Publisher/Chairman Leadership Newspapers, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah pledged Leadership’s support for NIMC’s task of establishing, regulating and maintaining a reliable and sustainable National System of Identity Management for Nigeria.

Corporate Communications Unit NIMC