Nigeria: Over N121 Billion Wasted, Nigeria's Troubled National ID Card Project in Fresh Controversy

The expensive media razzmatazz and the glitzy photo ops with top politicians and other prominent Nigerians, these may just be a facade to hide the fact that the national identity card project currently lie in a legal limbo that may eventually cost the government as much as N44 billion of tax payers money in damages for an alleged breach of contract.

The current legal logjam hovering over the project was occasioned by what the Managing Director of Chams Consortium Limited, Demola Aladekomo, described as an abuse of office and executive highhandedness by the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Chris Onyemenam.

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