INEC, NIMC Join Forces to Integrate Biometric Data for Elections and ID

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has partnered with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to harmonise identity and voter registration processes across Nigeria.

This was disclosed in a statement on the NIMC X handle.

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke when the NIMC Director-General, Abisola Kukar, and her delegation visited the INEC headquarters in Abuja, hailed the ongoing cooperation between the two federal agencies.

Yakubu stated that the collaboration would transform the country’s electoral system, as both agencies collectively hold the largest biometric databases in Nigeria: INEC for electoral purposes and NIMC for general citizenship identification.