Tag: Biometric
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2019 UTME: JAMB to investigate inability of candidates to do biometric verification
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will investigate reported cases of inability of some candidates to do biometric verification as the 2019/20 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), commenced on Thursday. The board’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a…
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Nigeria loses $2b annually to biometric duplication
Federal Government may be loosing $2 billion annually to the duplication of biometric collection by government agencies, an Information technology expert has said. An official of the Information Technology unit of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Jacob Edo, disclosed this during a press conference to herald the launching of a digital transformation book…
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2018 census will be biometric based – FG
The Federal Government has announced that to eliminate to the barest minimum the possibility of human errors, the 2018 Census will be bio-metric based. This was revealed on Monday by the Sokoto State Federal Commissioner of the National Population Commission, NPC, Barrister Muhammadu Aminu Jason while addressing newsmen. In his words: “As a prelude the…