NIN Registration Progress: FG Achieves 48% of Monthly Target
The National Identity Management Commission has been able to complete 47.6% of the Federal Government’s monthly objective of 2.5 million registrations of National Identity Numbers (NIN).
In spite of a slowing in enrollment, the number of Nigerians with National Identity Numbers (NIN) rose to 102.39 million in August.
In the first eight months of the year, enrollment decreased by 35.14 per cent year over year, as only 8.36 million people (as of August 28, 2023) have signed up for NIN as opposed to the 12.89 million who had signed up as of July 7, 2022. This is according to NIMC data that our correspondent obtained and analysed.
In the first eight months of 2023, the average number of NIN enrollees per month will be 1.19 million. According to the data, the nation is not enrolling as many people as the National Development Plan 2021–2025’s monthly objective of 2.5 million for National Identification Numbers.
The number of NIN enrollees increased from 72.7 million on January 1, 2022, to 94.03 million on December 31, 2022, as a result of the commission’s ability to register 21.33 million people in 2022. During the entire year, there were 1.78 million average monthly NIN enrollments.
According to the plan, the Federal Government will enrol 2.5 million Nigerians each month, totalling 100 million in three years. It stated that a registration push was necessary to address the country’s data shortage, which was becoming an issue.
The Nigerian Communications Commission’s linkage of SIM Registration Data to the National Identity Number Database is the most recent of these, according to the government. In three years, the NIMC intends to register an extra 100 million people and has launched a large registration push. For the following three years, 2.5 million people per month are expected to enrol.
NIN’s enrollment stats as of August 28, 2023, stood at over 102.39 million unique records, according to NIMC’s statement regarding the NIN enrollment for the month. Lagos State has the highest overall enrollment total of nearly 11.17 million.
482,670 people from the diaspora were enrolled in total, and the data generally showed that men (58.15 million) were more likely than women (44.24 million) to sign up for the NIN. Lagos (11.17 million), Kano (9.08 million), Kaduna (6.35 million), Ogun (4.32 million), and Oyo are the leading states for NIN enrolment (3.97 million).
Bayelsa (642,233), Ebonyi (818,173), Ekiti (1,01 million), Cross-River (1,17 million), and Taraba are among the lowest-populating states (1.48 million).
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Shubham Chaudhuri, the World Bank’s Country Director for Nigeria, reaffirmed the bank’s commitment to NIMC at a recent dinner in coordination with the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to ensure the effective implementation and registration of digital national IDs across the nation.
He reiterated his promise to give a digital national ID to at least 148 million adults by the middle of 2024. He emphasised the possibilities for driving transformation by utilising digital technologies.
“Our main purpose here in Nigeria is to eradicate poverty, improve living conditions, and create jobs for all Nigerian youth,” he declared. The use of digital technologies for transformation is one of the areas we believe has the most potential. Now, having this digital national ID is the first step in doing that.
In order to ensure the rollout of the registration so that all 213 or 220 million Nigerians have a digital national ID, starting of course with all people of working age, one of our main partnerships is working with NIMC, and I believe the target for that is at least 148 million people by the middle of next year.
