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Should Purchasing NIMC’s Storage Servers Cost N25 Billion?
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has revealed its storage servers cannot adequately store data for the country’s population. While appearing before the Senate Public Accounts Committee, the Director-General of NIMC, Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed that 57 million persons had been registered, but the commission would need additional 90 servers to register 100 million Nigerians. …
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NIN Data: Over Half Of Nigeria’s Population Are Unregistered
In the early weeks of December, the Nigerian Communication Commission issued a directive to all mobile network operators to deactivate all SIM cards that will not be duly registered with valid national identity cards by December 30, 2020. At that time, only 41.5 million Nigerians of the estimated 200 million, according to the commission, had…