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Enrolments for NIN hit 92.63 million in November 2022
According to RNN’s analysis of the most recent data made public by the NIMC, 92.63 million people had registered for NIN
By November 28, 2022, 92.63 million people had registered for a National Identification Number (NIN).
According to RNN’s analysis of the most recent data made public by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), this is the case, Given that the database had 90.68 million users at the end of October, this indicates that NIMC registered a total of 1.9 million new enrollments in November.
More males signed up: The NIMC data on gender distribution showed that 52.1 million people, or 56% of Nigerians now included in the NIN database, are male. Females make up the remaining 40.5 million, or 44 percent.
Statistics show that with 10.3 million Nigerians enrolled as of this writing, Lagos State has the highest enrollment rate in the nation. Kano State, which has 8 million NINs registered, came next.
In order of enrollment, the following other States made the top ten: Kaduna (5.4 million), Ogun (3.8 million), Oyo (3.6 million), FCT (3.2 million), Katsina (3.1 million), Rivers (2.7 million), Delta (2.4 million), and Bauchi (also 2.4 million NIN registrations).
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According to NIMC data, Zamfara had 1.6 million total NIN enrollments as of November, followed by Akwa Ibom (1.5 million), Imo (1.5 million), Enugu (1.5 million), Yobe (1.3 million), Taraba (1.3 million), Cross River (one million), Ekiti (971,712), Ebonyi (744,869), and Bayelsa (583,323). Nigeria has been trying in vain for years to use the NIN to establish a reliable national database.
However, many Nigerians are being forced to register for the national number because of a government policy that was adopted in December 2020 that requires all mobile subscribers to link their SIM with NIN.
Some businesses, notably telecom providers, were granted licenses to function as enrolling agents in order to address the NIMC’s infrastructure restrictions, which had hampered the procedure for years. Around 75 million phone lines were affected by the government’s regulation, which telecom providers were required to implement in April of this year.
Many of the impacted subscribers were compelled to enroll in the NIN and join their lines in order to get their lines restored for communications.