Why Nigeria’s national database ‘s still fragmented despite NIMC’s claims
Speaking during the ID4Africa Annual General Meeting in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and in a subsequent interview with Vanguard, Coker-Odusote said NIMC has integrated key government databases based on their respective use cases, making the NIN the country’s master identity while linking sector-specific identifiers such as the Bank Verification Number, BVN, to a common national identity infrastructure.
Coker-Odusote claims that the National Identification Number, NIN, has become the country’s master identity linking records across government and the private sector.
After all, he already possessed a National Identification Number, NIN, the unique identifier that the Federal Government says now underpins Nigeria’s digital identity ecosystem.
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