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THE Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (NDID4D) project is set to partner with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on the pilot identity enrollment in the Federal Capital Territory.
Malam Mouktar Adamu, the Manager, External Communication NDID4D, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
Adamu said that the agreement was sealed following a courtesy visit by the National Coordinator of NDID4D, Mr Solomon Odole, who led a delegation to the NOA headquarters.
The enrollment will also take place in six states representing the geopolitical zones in the country in Feb. 2023.
Earlier, Odole said that the project needed NOA to scale its awareness creation and sensitisation activities in the six Area Councils of the FCT.
He reiterated the project’s overarching goal of increasing the number of persons in the country having a NIN and upgrading infrastructure at the National Identity Management Commission.
“This is so as to be able to enroll in marginalised and hard-to-reach communities up to no fewer than 250 million persons during the project’s life cycle,” Odole said.
The Director-General, NOA, Dr Dauda Abari commended NDID4D for its the good work, adding that NOA had been involved in digital identification and NIMC.
Abari also lauded the performance of NIMC in attaining over 90 million enrollees, saying that NOA is proud to be part of the commission’s success story.
The DG pledged the commitment to the agency to the partnership and looked forward to its pilot enrollment programme in 2023 to which it can deploy mobile vans equipped with jingles in different languages.
This, he said, would sensitise communities, markets, places of worship and palaces.
Abari added that NOA was also amenable to signing an MoU with the project to seal the partnership.
He promised that the agency would work with the project on the MoU to boost the enrollment figures and ensure that no one was left behind.
“Data identification and capture are very necessary in any economy as the world has become digitally-driven.
“We have trained our staffers in the States and we have created a data capture centre in NOA’s headquarters to serve people at the old Secretariat and a nearby market,” he said.
Members of the delegation were: Dr Emmanuel Akogun, the Project’s M&E Specialist, Malam Mouktar Adamu, External Communications Manager, Mr Ibrahim Salifu, the Project’s Change Manager and Mrs Helen Ekeh, the Stakeholder Engagement Manager.(NAN)
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Tags: Dr Dauda Abari Malam Mouktar Adamu Mr Ibrahim Salifu Mr Solomon Odole Mrs Helen Ekeh NDID4D NOA
