FG plans ID card for Internally Displaced Persons

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The Federal Government on Tuesday said it would start capturing internally displaced persons in Nigeria in a bid to produce national identity cards for the IDPs.

It disclosed this through the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in a statement issued in Abuja to announce that the 16th of September had been declared as the International Identity Day.

It said, “the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, uses this occasion to remind Nigerians of the importance of digital identity. “We will start by capturing internally displaced persons in Nigeria and will also support the National Identity Management Commission and other stakeholders to ensure that we make the process of obtaining digital IDs swift and secure.”

It said digital identity which played a critical part in the development of a digital economy, was also the fabric of the digital economy.

 

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