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Nigeria Upgrades Biometric System for Enhanced Citizen Identification

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Nigeria is making a major technological leap with a significant upgrade to its national biometric identification system. This upgrade comes through a partnership between IDEMIA Smart Identity, a leading French provider of identity technologies, and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).

The new biometric system will be incredibly powerful, offering several key improvements:

  • Capacity: The system will be able to store up to 250 million individual records, helping Nigeria provide identification for its entire population.
  • Speed: It can perform an impressive 1 million identification checks each day.
  • Global Alignment: The project has the backing of the World Bank, ensuring its alignment with international standards.

This upgrade ensures that every Nigerian citizen will have a unique and secure digital identity, enabling them to access important services and exercise their rights. Nigeria will now be in a stronger position to meet the United Nations goal of providing legal identity for all by 2030.

“We are very proud to continue our long-standing collaboration with NIMC for the greater good of Nigeria’s growing population. The new powerful system is future-proof and will ensure that all Nigerians have access to a secured, trusted identity, enabling them to exercise their rights and responsibilities as a citizen. Moreover, this contract, in the most populous country in Africa, demonstrates IDEMIA’s capability to deploy its technologies on a very large scale,” explains Olivier Charlanes, Senior Vice President of Middle East and Africa at IDEMIA Smart Identity.

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“Taking this next step in the enhancement of our system with IDEMIA Smart Identity was a natural choice for us. We wanted to ensure that we deliver the best-in-class solution to our fellow Nigerians, and the pure power of the biometric matching we will receive ensures that the solution is future-proof for our growing population,” explains Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, CEO, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and Chairman of the OSIA Advisory Committee.

With a global team of nearly 15,000 employees, IDEMIA Group is trusted by over 600 governmental organisations and more than 2,400 enterprises in over 180 countries.

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