The
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has established over two hundred
new Enrolment Centres across the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT) reports ITRealms.
NIMC, ITRealms also gathered from the Deputy
Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Abdulhamid Umar has commenced enrolment
exercises for the National Identification Number (NIN) in these Enrolment Centres
in the last 10 weeks.
He quoted
the Director of Operations, Mrs. Cecilia Yahaya as saying NIMC is committed to
ensuring that the deployment of all enrolment infrastructures based on global
best practices was done expeditiously to enable NIMC meet the Presidential
directive of December 31, 2014.
She said some
of the Enrolment Centres are located in the following Local Government Areas:
Alimosho, Eti-Osa, Lekki, Agege, Army Barracks Ojo, Ipaja in Lagos state.
Others are Akpabuyo, Odukpani, Biase, Ogoja, etc., in Cross River State; Gerei,
Minchika, Song and Mayobelwa in Adamawa State; Nnewi North, Onisha North and
South, Anoacha, and Ogbaru in Anambra State.
Other Centres
are Kano Municipal, Madoni, Kura, Wudil, Gezawa Tarauni, in Kano State;
Alkaleri, Dass, Toro, Katagun in Bauchi; Ivo, Ishilu, Izzi in Ebonyi State and others.
Mrs. Yahaya
added that a number of Enrolment Centres have also been opened in more Tertiary
Institutions nationwide; they include University of Ilorin, IBB University
Lapai, FUTMinna Permanent and Temporary Campus, University of Benin, University
of Calabar, Maritime Academy, Covenant University, Crawford University,
University of Kastina, Kaduna Polytechnic, Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi,
Federal polytechnic Ibadan, Ladoke University of Tech, ABU Zaria.
She called
on all eligible applicants to visit the NIMC website, www.nimc.gov.ng to see
the full list of Enrolment Centres closest to them.
The
Director of Operations, further explained that the deployment of these Enrolment
Centres is to facilitate, as well as fast-track the enrolment of all Nigerians
wherever they may reside; “with the deployment of these new enrolment centres,
we now have close to four hundred Enrolment Centres nationwide; while about 50
others will be deployed in the next one month. These would no doubt fast-track
enrolment,” she said.
“We have a
target, we have expectations and we are moving at the fastest pace possible to
enable us enrol as many eligible applicants as possible, subject to a very
tight budgetary constraint of course,” she said.
Mrs. Yahaya
noted that the Commission has captured the data of close to 3 million
Nigerians, and hinted that the newly deployed Enrolment Centres would see
aggressive attempts to grow the number of enrolments from 60,000 a day, to
100,000 a day.
She
encouraged eligible applicants to take advantage of the NIMC pre-enrolment
portal, www.ninenrol.gov.ng, to pre-enrol for the NIN, before proceeding to
Enrolment Centre closest to them for biometrics data capture.
“Applicants
are further advised to come along with a supporting document such as birth
certificate, driver’s licence, International Passport, Voters Identity Card,
etc., to complete enrolment and get the National Identification Number,” she
said.
In addition, Director of Operations said that the scheme would help to protect Nigerians
from identity theft and fraud by providing a simple, reliable, sustainable and
universally acceptable means of confirming someone’s identity at all times.
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