Nigeria’s former digital ID chief says more funding needed to push expansion efforts

The outgoing director general of Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, says there is need for more funding in order to extend digital ID enrollment to all corners of the country’s 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs).

In an interview with New Telegraph, Aziz addressed several issues related to Nigeria’s digital ID ecosystem and its digital transformation journey.

While noting that the success so far of the scheme, which has seen the registration of more than 100 …

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