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NIMC, others strategise on national ID card activation

By ADEYEMI ADEPETUN
17 February 2015   |   11:00 pm
NATIONAL Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has concluded its two day 2nd International Vendors’ Summit aimed at ensuring that citizens who have enrolled for their National Identification Number (NIN) get their National e-ID Cards on time, as well as draw up a road map for the cards personalization phase ‘2’ outlook.    The summit held recently…

NATIONAL Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has concluded its two day 2nd International Vendors’ Summit aimed at ensuring that citizens who have enrolled for their National Identification Number (NIN) get their National e-ID Cards on time, as well as draw up a road map for the cards personalization phase ‘2’ outlook.

   The summit held recently at the NIMC Headquarters Abuja, had in attendance top executives of all NIMC Vendors’, partners and stakeholders; both local and international.

  The vendors present at the summit include CryptoVision, MasterCard, Verve, Chams, SecureID Limited, Electronic Payplus Limited, Unified Payment Limited, AuspointLitited, eTranzact, MEA Services Limited. XL Africa Limited.

  A major consideration of the summit was for the commission to interface with the vendors and further examine the inputs of each vendor in the NIMS project.

   General Manager, Corporate Communications at NIMC, Abdulhamid Umar in a statement said that the interactive session was also a means to discuss strategies to ensure the swift distribution of the National e-ID Cards, as well as to fast-track the process for post issuance update for citizens who have already received their Cards.

  Also, a review of the applets in the phase ‘1’card issuance, its successes, challenges and the way forward, was also part of the agenda, even as NIMC prepares for the activation of eight other applets on the National e-ID Card.

  “The key consideration for the second International Vendors’ Summit is to ensure that Nigerians are issued their cards on time. It is imperative to bring all stakeholders who are involved in the National Identity e-ID Card project together to brainstorm on steps to make all the applets on the card user friendly”, said the Acting General Manager, Information Technology/Identity Database (IT/IDD), Chuks Onyepunuka, while making his report.

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