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The National Identity Management Commission is proposing N25 billion to procure more servers for the storage of National Identity Number enrolment records.

It is to submit its proposal to the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday.

The Director General, NIMC, Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this on Tuesday while appearing before Senate Public s Committee, which is probing the agency over alleged non-compliance with Public Procurement Act on award of N229 million contract.

He said 57 million persons have, so far, been ed, adding that 90 servers were needed to 100 million Nigerians.

“For us to reach 100 million, we will need 90 servers. We have enrolled 57 million as of today. We will ask for N25 billion at FEC tomorrow to buy more server to take the whole of population,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Auditor-General for the Federation, in a 2017 report, said NIMC, in October, 2017 procured 22 units of servers at a cost of N229.7 million with no evidence of Ministerial Tender’s Board approval.

“There was an initial payment of ₦103.4 million vide payment voucher number NIMC/01/016 CA/18 dated 19/01/18, representing 45% of the contract sum as against the mobilization fee of 15%. The other subsequent payments were not also backed by an interim performance certificate as required by Section 35(2) of the public procurement Act 2007.

“This is an indication of weakness in the internal control system at National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).

“This could lead to poor value for money and possibility of misapplication and misappropriation of funds. Management’s response No response was received from management at the time of our report. Recommendation The Director General is required to refund the sum of ₦229 million,” the audit query said.

But the Director General claimed that the contract falls within the threshold of the Commission’s Tenders Board and that all the servers had been supplied before the initial payment of 45 percent which represent part payment and not mobilization due to paucity of funds.

He also said the contract was a continuation of procurement of Enterprise Servers and Storage Solution and Equipment which was awarded in 2012.

The chairman of the committee, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, said it was wrong for the commission to continue 2012 Procurement process in 2017.

“We supposed to do status enquiry on your Commission because it looks like all your documents are muddled up,” the lawmaker said.

The committee therefore asked the commission’s officials to reappear next week with more documents to back up their claims.

https://dailytrust.com/nin-enrollment-nimc-seeks-n25bn-for-storage-servers

I hope FEC toss this out.

God why you put me for this kind country,

90 servers to 100 million people, AWS cloud service would solve this for way less than 10million naira.

If FG don't pay them , then it will be obvious that nin is over hyped and it linkage to sim is rubbish

Haba....25billion for which kain server again?

Lol

Soon the whole data will be lost.

Smh...las las my sim go still dey active after June 30

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Nigeria NIMC boss wan ki person

So the bribe they stole from long queues during the NIN exercise hasn't been enough?

The bribe they stole when they intentionally omit a letter in your name so you'll pay ₦15k for correction isn't enough, right?

The bribe of selling a photocopied page for ₦1k, and not accepting the one you printed yourself isn't enough right?


Man's government has failed. I'm still available to write your assignments tho.

Jeesuuss Christ!!!!... 25 billion not million oooo

Politicians, why ?

Mchtwwww

hmmmm. funny people

Make una dey use una sense dey theif na 25 billion what?
Na God go punish una.

Corruption servers

Office don open

Fellow Nigerians, just watch how this would be justified and approved.


I wonder how much Facebook would be spending on their servers if it was run by Nigerian government

They will keep thiefing the country till they start borrowing from citizens.

H

Haba

Very embarrassing country.

Of course, they would need on premise Data Centers, which I believe Galaxy Backbone could give, but no, they want their own data center. I just hope the centers would have DR backed up 100% of data integrity.

It would be against National Security if we host our data in a foreign cloud, thou Microsoft Azure Firewall boasts of availability at least 99.95% of the time, when deployed within a single Availability Zone; meaning you're 99% sure of your data in the cloud. AWS am not sure. Even Pentagon does businesses with these cloud providers, you're sure of every kind of protection from DR, to firewalls and so much more.

Anyway, Some people are about to swim in largesse and give testimony

N25 Billion might just be too much; but what do i know.

This country is one hell of a joke... Niger Delta Ndi one Nigeria unah see wetin them dey use unah money dey do... imagine Niger Delta taking over control of their crude oil all alone for themselves.. Qatar will not come close to them in richness...

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https://dailytrust.com/nin-enrollment-nimc-seeks-n25bn-for-storage-servers

una want to start again abi? Yeye people.....

Why not use cloud services?
Na to chop money una dey find

See scam. It wont take up to 200m to store all these data and servers on AWS Cloud or Microsoft Azure but our leaders are thieves.. Thunder fire them all

Okay oh. I'm wondering how much mainframes and server systems cost. What a clueless and useless country, you can't even the nin network problem every fcking day.

Patami well done oo