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Nigeria sets 5-year biometric enrollment target for whole population to national ID system
Nigeria's private and financial sectors have been making progress with digital ID technology, and the World Bank and others are financing the acceleration of the national biometric identity scheme, which should allow further progress, but for now is holding things up. Data protection policy development remains on the sidelines. ... Read the whole story here.

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