Nigeria, May 15 -- No fewer than 42 million unique records are in the National Identity Database, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced on Thursday.

The director-general of NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, made this revelation while participating in a three-day Africa Tech Leaders Webinar Series on COVID-19 organised by Digital Jewels Limited.

The webinar series drew high-level participants from the public sector in Africa- Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda.

Mr Aziz who spoke on the disparity in technology adoption between the private and public sectors in Nigeria, said his commission has the mandate of the Nigerian government backed by a $433 million financial aid from the World Bank, the French Development Agency (AfD) and the Europ...