and underestimating the centrality of biometrics in rescuing Nigeria from the gaping maws of insecurity. The virus hasn’t neutralised kidnap-for-ransom, cybercrime, banditry and insurgency, which have stripped Nigeria of its sovereign integrity…
The past governments all rolled out fancy policies to document and manage citizens’ data, which were more successful in the disappearances of billions from the national treasury. The trending call for citizens and legal residents to acquire national identity and have it linked to their mobile phone numbers, is a reminder of the past and it’s easy to see why the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr.
…what has set this renewed call for registration apart, aside from the emphasis on its digital nature, is that without it Nigeria is unlikely to bounce back from its quick descent into a criminals’ playground. This bid for the comprehensive biometric information of citizens must be treated as a dying nation’s gasp for oxygen…
Nigeria has also often been defined by the statistical projections of foreign organisations, but local politicians are also quick to question unfavourable rankings, when they have no superior or alternative data to present. On his Twitter account in October 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari referred to the data “developed abroad by the World Bank, IMF and other foreign bodies” as “wild estimates that bear little relation to the facts on the ground.
The minister has been stuck in a game theory with criminal beneficiaries of Nigeria’s dysfunction, and it’s easy to predict their payoff to determine his Nash equilibrium, and that’s when a fingerprint or phone number will be enough to track down a criminal.
Workers registering Nigerians for the NIN do not have enough tools, says the President of the Association of the Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC unit, Asekohai Lucky. HardCopy CTVTweets
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