President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to building a credible, secure, and verifiable national identity management system, describing it as vital to achieving Nigeria’s developmental goals.
The President made this known on Thursday at the State House, Abuja, during the official launch of the NINAuth App, a mobile-based identity authentication platform developed by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
President Tinubu said the new digital application represents a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital infrastructure and improving efficiency, transparency, and accountability in governance under the Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Today’s launch of the NIMC NINAuth App marks a remarkable day in our nation’s digital public infrastructure journey as Africa’s largest identity database,” Tinubu said. “This innovation is a milestone in our collective pursuit of a digitally empowered Nigeria.”
The President explained that the NINAuth App will ensure that Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) adopt a unified, technology-driven system for staff and data verification. He added that the platform would enable secure and inclusive access to essential services while reducing bureaucratic bottlenecks and curbing corruption.
“A credible and inclusive National Identity Management System is fundamental to our national development goals,” he said. “It supports financial inclusion, strengthens social welfare delivery, enhances our security architecture, and ensures accurate population data for evidence-based planning.”
President Tinubu further emphasized that with the NINAuth platform, every citizen and legal resident of Nigeria would have access to a unified national identity database that will improve social programmes, healthcare delivery, and electoral integrity.
He urged Nigerians to embrace the new application, noting that it signifies the government’s determination to use technology as a tool for national progress.
“My fellow Nigerians, the future we seek is one where technology empowers every citizen and where trust in governance is built on efficiency, transparency, and inclusiveness,” Tinubu said. “Together, we are building a nation where every identity counts and every citizen must matter.”
Earlier, the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, praised the President’s vision for using technology to strengthen national security and improve governance.
“Your Excellency, you are solving tomorrow’s problems with technology,” the minister said. “Every nation that desires to be efficient must first build systems that can identify, authenticate, and secure its citizens. Identity is the backbone of governance, national security, and service delivery.”
In her remarks, the Director-General of NIMC, Engr. (Dr.) Abisoye Coker-Odusote, said the NINAuth App would eliminate multiple data ownership and provide real-time verification services for both public and private sector use.
According to her, NIMC has enrolled over 126.7 million Nigerians, with about 25 million registrations recorded in the last two years, and currently processes an average of 1.3 million verification requests daily.
The event marks another milestone in the federal government’s drive to modernize Nigeria’s identity infrastructure and integrate digital solutions into governance and national development.