The National Identity Management Commission has announced that the National Identification Number has been issued to 102.39 million Nigerians as of August 28, 2023.
This was disclosed by the Commission in its recently released NIN enrolment data.
According to the data, enrolment for the ID number was yet to resume after slowing in July.
The total enrolment count in August was 743, 085, somewhat higher than the 634,603 registered in July of this year.
However, with the recent appointment of a new Director-General, Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, NIMC stated that it has begun working to hasten the issuing of the digital identification token in line with President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s renewed hope mission.
According to NIMC data, Lagos State maintained the top rank by having the most enrolments in the country, with 11.17 million Nigerians enrolled.
Kano State was the next in line, with 9.07 million registered NIN.
According to National Bureau of Statistics data, the two most populous states in Nigeria have retained the lead in NIN enrolment since the beginning of the exercise.
In terms of gender distribution, the NIMC data shows that 58.15 million, or 56.8% of Nigerians so far captured in the NIN database, are male. On the other hand, 44.23 million people, or 43.2% of all registrants, are female.
Other states that made the top 10 in terms of enrolment include Kaduna with 6.3 million, Ogun with 4.3 million, Oyo with 3.9 million, Katsina with 3.5 million, FCT with 3.4 million, Rivers with 3 million, Bauchi with 2.7 million, and Delta with 2.7 million.
According to NIMC data, Akwa-Ibom has 1.7 million NINs, Imo has 1.7 million, Kogi has 1.7 million, Enugu has 1.64 million, Yobe has 1.6 million, Taraba has 1.47 million, Cross River has 1.17 million, Ekiti has 1 million, Ebonyi has 818,173, and Bayelsa has 642,233.
The country’s ability to reach the World Bank’s target under the Digital Identification for Development program may be hampered further by a slowdown in enrollments in August. Nigeria is anticipated to have issued 148 million NIN by June 2024, according to the project parameters.
Even with a monthly enrollment rate of 1 million, Nigeria was not certain of meeting the deadline, which is now less than a year away.
Aside from giving NIN to 148 million Nigerians by 2024, the Bank has set several other goals including the issuance of NIN to at least 65 million female Nigerians by June 1, 2024, as well as 50 million NIN to children under 16 years of age.
