In a move to curtail insurgency and other criminal
challenges confronting the country, the National Population Commission, NPC,
has commenced a comprehensive biometric capturing of all Nigerians, with a view
to allocating every Nigerian number that would be associated with him or her
from birth to death.
Chairman, NPC, Chief Festus Odimegwu, who disclosed
this in Abuja, said the biometric capturing would also be applied to all people
resident in Nigeria.
He said the biometric identification would help to
streamline the avalanche of foreigners into the country and reduce the scope of
kidnapping, armed robbery and Boko Haram sect’s activities in the country.
He said: “We are going to do for the first time in
Nigeria a comprehensive biometric census. To record all Nigerians, their
biometrics, give them one number that will follow them from birth to death.”
Via Vanguard
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