The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has revealed plans to reduce the time used to register at its enrolment centres acrossNigeria.
The Director General of NIMC, Abisoye Coker-Odusote, during the presentation of new enrolment devices to the commission by Korea International Cooperation Agency Nigeria Office, recently in Abuja, said the commission is exploring many measures to equip its field offices with cutting-edge devices to upgrade its centres.
This came after the commission temporarily suspended Front-End Partners from engaging in the National Identification Number enrolments.
This is due to the fact that the commission is currently carrying out a revalidation exercise of these third-party registration centres.
The DG also revealed that the NIMC has identified multiple infractions and unwholesome practices in the processes of enrolment and modification of National Identity Number.
Coker-Odusote said KOICA is supporting Nigeria with 222 devices to be deployed to NIMC enrolment offices across the country with support services for the devices for a year.
She said: “These devices will make a great difference in our state office. It will be used in our enrolment offices. It will create a very appreciable difference.
“The devices are very modern and have the best specifications available now. This will help our offices as some of the devices are older and slower as technology moves quickly.”
Speaking at the event, the Country Director of KOICA, Son Sungil, said the devices were provided to foster a stronger partnership with NIMC and to make sure the e-government project it is working on would be fatser and be a flagship for other projects nationwide.
Sungil said: “The support we have made is one of many things we have done. It will not be the end of the partnership we have and we are expecting some other more interesting and important activities to come such as the partnership on assistant development of architecture and the initiative planning and strategic development establishment on key policies of NIMC.”
