National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have strengthened their partnership for national progress, particularly in the on-going national identity number (NIN) registration.
Chris Onyemenam, DG/CEO of NIMC led other management staff to NIS with the purpose of reviewing collaborations and ensure that individual roles and mandates are further clarified.
The management of NIMC paid a working visit to the headquarters of the Nigeria Immigration Service in Abuja recently.
On hand to receive them and lead deliberations in areas of mutual interests and partnership was Mr David Parradang, comptroller-general of the NIS, and senior officers of the service.
However, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek investigations indicate that a remarkable fallout of the meeting was the fine tuning of vetting and clearance processes for persons whose nationality or citizenship status are in doubt before they can be enrolled into the National Identity Database (NIDB).
Established by the NIMC Act No. 23 of 2007, the NIMC has the mandate to establish, own, operate, maintain and manage the National Identity Database in Nigeria, register persons covered by the Act, assign a unique National Identification Number (NIN) and issue General Multi-Purpose Cards (GMPC) to those registered individuals, and to harmonize and integrate existing identification databases in Nigeria.