Nigeria: World Bank to Inject U.S.$433 Million Into Nigeria's National Identity Card Project

4 September 2019

Lagos — With a $433 million (N1.5 trillion) World Bank support, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is set for a massive registration of Nigerians for the country's mandatory National Identity Number (NIN).

LEADERSHIP learnt that the fund comes under the friendly ecosystem project of the World Bank, which allows Nigeria to implement the identity ecosystem approach for the digital identity project under the National Identity Management System (NIMS).

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