NIN: Lagos, Kano preserve lead as enrolments hit 118.4 million in March 2025

This exhibits that the nation recorded about a million contemporary enrolments within the final month, as the full enrolment determine stood at 117.3 million on the finish of February.

In accordance with the statistics, Lagos State has up to now recorded the best variety of enrolments within the nation, with 12.7 million Nigerians captured within the State.

This was adopted by Kano State, which recorded 10.4 million registered NIN. In accordance with information from the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria’s two most populous states have maintained the lead in NIN enrollment for the reason that starting of the train.

Kaduna State got here distant-third with 6.9 million NIN enrolment determine on the finish of March.

Gender distribution

When it comes to the gender distribution of the enrolees, the NIMC information reveals that 66.9 million, representing 56.5% of Nigerians up to now captured within the NIN database, are male, whereas 51.5 million, representing 43.5%, are feminine.

• In the meantime, apart from Lagos, Kano, and Kaduna, different states that made the highest ten by way of the variety of enrolments embrace Ogun with 4.9 million; Oyo with 4.5 million; Katsina with 4 million; FCT with 3.8 million; Rivers 3.5 million; Delta 3.2 million, and Jigawa with 3.1 million.
• NIMC information exhibits that the ten states with the bottom NIN enrolees are: Imo 2 million; Kwara 2 million; Enugu 1.9 million; Kogi 1.9 million; Yobe 1.8 million; Taraba 1.7 million; Cross River 1.4 million; Ekiti 1.1 million; Ebonyi 999,991; and Bayelsa 767,620.

What it is best to know

Nigeria, via the World Financial institution’s Digital Identification for Nationwide Improvement (ID4D) undertaking, is presently striving to register all its residents within the NIN database.

• Final 12 months, the nation missed the deadline set by the World Financial institution to seize at the least 148 million Nigerians by June 30. This led to the extension and restructuring of the undertaking by the World Financial institution
• In accordance with the Financial institution, the extension was crucial to ensure the entire disbursement of the $430 million pledged for the undertaking by the financiers.
• The undertaking is being co-financed by the French Improvement Company (AFD), and the European Funding Financial institution (EIB).
• With the restructuring of the undertaking, the Financial institution mentioned the closure has now been prolonged by two years to June 30, 2026.

It famous that the extension grew to become crucial for the undertaking to answer the growing demand for an inclusive and trusted digital ID system that may strengthen the transparency, effectivity, and effectiveness of governance and the supply of public companies and applications.