NIN Enrolment: National Identity Management Commission seeks N25b to procure storage servers

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said it required N25 billion to procure more servers for the storage of National Identity Number (NIN) enrolment records.

The Director-General, NIMC, Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this when he appeared before the Senate Public Accounts Committee, which is probing the agency for alleged non-compliance with Public Procurement Act on award of N229 million contract.

Aziz, in his presentation, said 57 million persons had, so far, been registered.

He said that 90 servers were needed to register 100 million Nigerians.

According to him: “For us to reach 100 million, we will need 90 servers.

“We have enrolled 57 million as of today. We will ask for N25 billion at FEC on June 23, 2021 to buy more servers to take the whole of population.”