The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said it is leveraging the historic state visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the United Kingdom to deepen diaspora enrolment in the National Identification Number (NIN) scheme.
The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the commission, Abisoye Coker-Odusote, was among top government officials who received the President and the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, during the visit hosted at the invitation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
NIMC said the visit reflects Nigeria’s commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation in critical areas, including digital transformation, identity management and innovation.
In a statement, the commission’s Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke, noted that the engagement created “a strategic platform to advance the ongoing diaspora National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment initiative.”
He added that the initiative is designed to ensure Nigerians in the diaspora are seamlessly integrated into the national identity database, in line with the government’s broader digital inclusion agenda.
“For NIMC, the occasion is far more than diplomatic pageantry. It is a strategic opportunity, one the Commission is seizing with purpose.
” At the heart of its agenda is the on-going diaspora National Identification Number (NIN) enrollment initiative, a drive to ensure that Nigerians living abroad are not left behind in Nigeria’s rapidly evolving digital ecosystem”, Adegoke said.
Adegoke quoted the NIMC boss as saying that the Commission had resolved to not only expand NIN enrollment access globally but also to significantly scale up operations in the United Kingdom.
“The UK is home to one of the largest Nigerian diaspora communities in the world,” she noted, and highlighted the deep historical, economic, and diplomatic bonds that make the present push both timely and necessary.
She assured that more enrolment centers would be opened with better service delivery, and seamless digital processes as Nigerians abroad deserve nothing less.
“The stakes are real. Enhanced NIN services in the UK mean that Nigerians in the UK can obtain their NIN and NIN-related services without delays, access essential services, and seamlessly plug into Nigeria’s growing digital economy, from wherever they are in the world.
“But the Commission’s ambitions don’t stop at international borders. Back home, NIMC is simultaneously executing a ground-level revolution through its ward-level enrollment strategy, a grassroots initiative designed to carry identity services directly to the people, especially in rural and underserved communities where access has historically been limited.
“No more long distances. No more unnecessary barriers. Identity, delivered to the doorstep.
This dual-track approach, scaling the diaspora enrollment drive while intensifying registration at the ward level, is not coincidental.
” It is deliberate, and it reflects NIMC’s deep commitment to inclusive identity management. It is also perfectly aligned with the Federal Government’s broader vision of harnessing digital identity as a catalyst for economic growth, social protection, and effective governance” Engr Coker-Odusote said.
She added that the visit to the United Kingdom not only reinforced Nigeria’s diplomatic and innovation agenda, but also highlighted the critical role of identity infrastructure in connecting citizens at home and abroad to opportunities in an increasingly digital world.
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