The Nationwide Identification Administration Fee (NIMC) mentioned it has issued the Nationwide Identification Quantity (NIN) to 104.16 million Nigerians as of December 31, 2023.
The Fee disclosed this in its NIN enrolment information simply launched. The determine reveals {that a} complete of 10.13 million NINs have been issued all through final yr. As of December 2022, the NIN database stood at 94.03 million.
Regardless of a World Financial institution goal of 148 million by June 2024—lower than six months from now—registration for the NIN has been sluggish. Nevertheless, with the current appointment of a brand new Director-Common, Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, NIMC mentioned it has began working to speed up the issuance of the digital id token in keeping with the renewed hope mandate of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Lagos maintains lead
In keeping with the NIMC information, Lagos State maintained the highest spot by recording the best variety of enrolments within the nation with 11.42 million Nigerians captured within the State. This was adopted by Kano State, which recorded 9.19 million registered NINs. The 2 most populous states in Nigeria, based on the information from the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics have maintained the lead in NIN enrolment for the reason that starting of the train.
- Apart from Lagos and Kano, different states that made the highest ten when it comes to the variety of enrolments embody Kaduna with 6.45 million; Ogun with 4.40 million; Oyo with 4.04 million; Katsina with 3.54 million; FCT with 3.51 million; Rivers 3.13 million; Delta 2.79 million and Bauchi with 2.76 million.
- NIMC information reveals that the ten states with the bottom NIN issued are Kwara with 1.77 million, Akwa-Ibom with 1.76 million, Kogi with 1.73 million, Enugu with 1.67 million, Yobe with 1.65 million, Taraba with 1.49 million, Cross River 1.19 million, Ekiti 1.02 million, Ebonyi 839,506, and Bayelsa 657,484.
When it comes to the gender distribution of the enrollees, the NIMC information reveals that 59.12 million, representing 56.8% of Nigerians thus far captured within the NIN database are male. On the flip facet, 45.04 million, representing 43.2% of the whole enrollees are feminine.
World Financial institution’s goal
Regardless of the ten million plus new NIN registrations recorded in 2023, the nation continues to be removed from the 148 million World Financial institution’s goal below the Digital Identification for Improvement (ID4D) challenge.
Beneath the challenge phrases, Nigeria is anticipated to have issued 148 million NIN by June 2024.
Even with a mean of 1 million enrolments month-to-month, Nigeria was not sure to fulfill the deadline which is now lower than six months.
Apart from issuing NIN to 148 million Nigerians by June this yr, the Financial institution listed different targets to incorporate the issuance of NIN to at the very least 65 million feminine Nigerians by June 1, 2024, in addition to 50 million NIN to kids below 16 years of age.
