Nigeria is racing to meet a World Bank target of issuing digital ID to at least 148 million citizens in the course of this year, but efforts to attain this goal are bedeviled by a myriad of challenges.
With over 104 million digital IDs already issued notwithstanding, authorities regret that the issuance process has been facing problems such as lack of adequate infrastructure, insufficient funding, piling debts, as well as corruption and other malpractices perpetrated by some stakeholders like third-party agents involved in the digital ID enrollment process.
