Enrolment for the National Identification Number increased to 101 million as of June 26, 2023, this is according to the National Identity Management Commission’s most recent data.
Given that the country’s overall enrollment stood at 100 million at the end of May, this indicates that the country saw a total of one million new enrollments in the previous month.
Statistics show that 11 million Nigerians have been enrolled in schools in Lagos State, which has the highest enrollment rate in the nation to date while Kano State, which has 8.9 million NINs registered, ranked next.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, these two most populated states in Nigeria have held the lead in NIN enrollment since the exercise’s inception.
The NIMC data also reveals that the gender makeup of participants is as follows: 57.3 million enrollees which is 56.76% of Nigerians so far included in the NIN database, are men while 43.7 million registrants, or 43.24% of the total, are female.
Aside from Lagos and Kano, other states that made the top ten in terms of the number of enrolments include Kaduna with 6.2 million; Ogun with 4.2 million; Oyo with 3.9 million; FCT with 3.4 million; Katsina also 3.4 million; Rivers 3 million; Bauchi 2.7 million and Delta with 2.6 million.
According to NIMC data, the 10 states with the lowest NIN issued are Akwa-Ibom 1.7 million, Imo 1.7 million, Kogi 1.69 million: Enugu 1.62 million, Yobe 1.57 million, Taraba 1.45 million Cross River 1.15 million, Ekiti 1 million, Ebonyi 804,592, and Bayelsa 635,277.
Nigeria is required to have issued 148 million NIN by June 2024 in accordance with the project’s provisions.
Nigeria would need to enroll and issue NIN to an additional 47 million people over the course of the following 12 months in order to meet the target, which is less than a year before the deadline.
