A data released by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC has shown that enrolment for the National Identification Number (NIN) rose to 95.07 million as of January 22.
The data shows an increase of 1.04 million enrolments this month as the figure stood at 94.03 million at the end of 2022.
State by state analysis shows that Lagos has the highest number of enrolments in the country with 10.5 million Nigerians captured in the state, followed by Kano State with 8.3 million.
In terms of the gender distribution of the enrollees, the NIMC data reveals that 53.6 million, representing 56 per cent of Nigerians so far captured in the NIN database are male, while 41.4 million, representing 44 per cent are female.
Other states that made the top ten in terms of the number of enrolments include Kaduna with 5.6 million; Ogun with 3.9 million; Oyo with 3.75 million; FCT with 33.29 million; Katsina with 3.27 million; Rivers 2.86 million; Bauchi 2.58 million and Delta with 2.54 million.
The data shows that the 10 states with the lowest NIN issued are Kogi 1.64 million; Akwa-Ibom 1.62 million, Imo 1.59 million, Enugu 1.53 million, Yobe 1.44 million, Taraba 1.4 million Cross River 1.08 million, Ekiti 982,264, Ebonyi 762,993, and Bayelsa 602,705.
