*Engr. Aliu Azeez, Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission, commends Nigeria鈥檚 Bureau of Public Service Reforms for facilitating the adoption of National Identity Numbers (NINs) in certain government ministries, departments and agencies

Gbenga Kayode | 绿帽献妻

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has restated the need for the Federal Government to make the adoption of the National Identity Numbers (NINs) become a mandatory requirement for accessing government services.

绿帽献妻 learnt Engr. Aliu Azeez, Director-General of NIMC, who stated this also solicited the support of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) during a visit to the latter Thursday, March 3, 2022, in Abuja, FCT.

Engr. Azeez had led a delegation of the NIMC Management team on a visit to Mr. Dasuki Arabi, Director-General of BPSR.

The NIMC Director-General noted that the visit was to register NIMC鈥檚 gratitude to BPSR for facilitating the adoption of NIN in Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), and also for the issuance to travel passports by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), agency report said.

According to him, the number of Nigerians who had enrolled for NIN had risen to 75 million, from a mere seven million in 2015.

Azeez further disclosed that the identity management regulatory Commission had developed a Mobile App, with which consumers can access vital information about their NIN enrollments and print out.

In his response during the visit, Mr. Arabi, Director-General of BPSR, lauded the Azeez for the 鈥榬emarkable鈥� work he is doing to actualise the corporate mandate of the Commission, besides facilitating the enrollment of millions of Nigerians into the national identity database.

The BPSR Chief also urged other Management staff of NIMC to lend their support to their Director-General, whom Arabi said had remained steadfast and committed to actualising the vision and mission of the Commission.

He assured the visiting delegation that BPSR is ready to deploy its Self-Assessment Tool, SAT programme on NIMC, with a view to identifying areas of weaknesses and challenges facing the Commission, in spite of the great successes it had recorded thus far.

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