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President Goodluck Jonathan will today launch the National Electronic Identity Card.
In a statement, Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Anthony Okwudiafor, said the National e-ID Card, which will be officially unveiled at the State House Banquet hall, Abuja on Thursday, is a multi-purpose Card for identification, electronic signatures, biometric on-Card verification, and other applications.
He stated that the card, which would subsequently be issued to all Nigerians who have successfully enrolled for the National Identification Number, NIN, has five applications already activated at issuance, with a built in capacity to host more applications post-issuance and on request.
According to him, the process of activating applications on the card will be done in two phase, adding that features of the card as will be unveiled in the first phase include “International Civil Aviation Organisation (‘ICAO’):- compliant travel application to be used as a Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD), for local/ regional travel; Nigerian Electronic Identity (‘eID’) application to be used to authenticate an individual’s identity and Electronic Public Key Infrastructure (‘ePKI’) application to be used for Identification, authentication and digital signatures.
#Nigeria
In a statement, Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Anthony Okwudiafor, said the National e-ID Card, which will be officially unveiled at the State House Banquet hall, Abuja on Thursday, is a multi-purpose Card for identification, electronic signatures, biometric on-Card verification, and other applications.
He stated that the card, which would subsequently be issued to all Nigerians who have successfully enrolled for the National Identification Number, NIN, has five applications already activated at issuance, with a built in capacity to host more applications post-issuance and on request.
According to him, the process of activating applications on the card will be done in two phase, adding that features of the card as will be unveiled in the first phase include “International Civil Aviation Organisation (‘ICAO’):- compliant travel application to be used as a Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD), for local/ regional travel; Nigerian Electronic Identity (‘eID’) application to be used to authenticate an individual’s identity and Electronic Public Key Infrastructure (‘ePKI’) application to be used for Identification, authentication and digital signatures.
#Nigeria
