The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says it has registered no fewer than 21.4 million Nigerians into the National Identity Database and issued them the National Identification Number (NIN).
The Managing Director of the commission, Aliyu Aziz, gave the figure on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Mr. Aziz said that the new enrolment figure was reached at the close of work on Sept. 6.
According to him, the commission has also set up more enrolment centres across the 36 states of the federation and the FCT, bringing the number of such centres to about 805.
He said that with the deployment of additional enrolment centres, NIMC was currently active in 556 local government areas.
Mr. Aziz said that the commission was also working to activate the dormant centres in the remaining 218 councils to expand the enrolment coverage.
He said that this was in line with his goal to register 28 million Nigerians into the database by the end of December, 2017.
The managing director of NIMC said that the commission has continued to record exponential growth in the population of the database, in spite of the challenges facing the commission.
