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Next Biometrics announced a new integration of its biometric fingerprint technology in a mobile printer that supports social and financial inclusion in India, in its first Insights update written by Next Biometrics’ CEO Peter Heuman.

BluPrints develops the Integrated Mobile Printer Series dubbed “Vriddhi” which uses Bluetooth to help communities in semi-urban and rural parts of India. The all-in-one wireless device features Aadhaar-enabled biometrics integrated with a thermal printer to support various business use cases in banking, financial inclusion, eKYC, public distribution and e-governance.

Candidates, parents, teachers, and proprietors of schools fear that Nigeria is ill prepared for this new regime of examinations, which involves the use of high-end technologies like Biometrics.

They also fear that the inconsistencies that played up during the last voters registration exercise and the elections due to computation errors may still occur, causing even more anguish among parents who may have staked so much to register and prepare their wards for the examinations.

However, motorists are presently undergoing biometric capturing in order to get the new driver's licenses as stipulated by the Federal Roads Safety Corps' (FRSC) commands across the country.

With just two months to the expiration of the deadline on the on-going biometric Verification number initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bankers Committee, operators say the exercise will boost the war against foreign exchange fraud, among other vices, reports Festus Akanbi

One major issues confronting the nation’s banking sector is foreign exchange fraud.

The severity of the problem is further underscored by a chain of regulatory measures undertaken by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the foreign exchange market in recent time.

However, motorists are presently undergoing biometric capturing in order to get the new driver’s licenses as stipulated by the Federal Roads Safety Corps’ (FRSC) commands across the country.

The ghost workers were fished out by the biometric data implementation committee set up by the state government to find out why the council's wage bill had steadily been on the increase.

Worried by the whopping wage bill in the local government system, the government introduced biometric method of identifying the genuine workers with the aim of fishing out the ghost names that appeared on the wage bill.

The CEO of the Havel Corporate Concept, an affiliate of Nigerian hardware and data protection firm ioSafe Nigeria, says July is the target release date of a road map for transforming Abuja into a smart city, which also includes a biometric smart card program.

NAN News reports that Dr. Ahmed Badanga says the proposed Abuja Residents Smart Card Project would incorporate biometric data to enable the holders to access government, security, financial, and transportation services, and possibly to make payments. He wants to build “a reliable database of all residents of Abuja to support the proposed smart city,” to “enhance an effective and realistic ecosystem for planning, especially in the provision and delivery of social services and amenities.”<

At the signing of the MoU on Friday between the state government represented by the ministries of transport and justice, and the representative of the Courtville Business Solutions Plc, Mr. Wale Sonaike, Ntekim said the need to set out a robust framework to track vehicular movement in the state necessitated the new move. On the authenticity of the agency, the Commissioner said: “We interviewed and interacted with a number of agencies with ostensible capacity to provide these services. After a dispassionate, thorough and painstaking appraisal, we settled for the web-based Autoreg by Courtville Business Solutions Plc since it provides the best option both in capacity and experience.”

National President of ANLCA, Prince Olayiwola Shittu who disclosed in chat with journalists in Lagos said the aim of the project is to stem criminalities at the nation’s seaports.

He said the association was contending with a lot of forces that are trying to ridicule it, even as he added that most of the problems are operational.

Afolabi, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta, said he was sure that the card would help to check the movement of workers.

In a circular with reference number: Ref. Na. 59B03Nll/87 signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, on 28th May, 2014 and obtained by LEADERSHIP, FG said only the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has the statutory responsibility to create, manage, maintain and operate including harmonisation and integration of existing identification databases in government agencies into the National identity Database housed in the commission.

A few weeks back, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar picked up his mobile phone and called the Force Public Relations Spokesperson, Frank Mba, a Chief Superintendent of Police for final instruction. Afterwards Mba set out with the message. It was a long wait at the Senior Police Officers Mess in Ikeja, Lagos, as journalists from different media houses gathered to be briefed by Mba.

This, he said, will depend on the amendment of electoral laws, which presently do not recognise electronic voting.

Jega said contracts are being awarded for the production of a permanent voter register, which will be embedded in electronic chips on cards.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced the computerisation of its personnel records.

The Minister of the territory, Bala Mohammed made this disclosure during the territory's Operations Briefing Session at Gwarinpa I District (Life-Camp), Abuja on Monday.

Already, the company has launched a pilot scheme with the Federal Capital Territory administration to initiate the project, which is expected to spread across the 36 states.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, the Managing Director of Dermo Impex Nigeria Limited, Dr. Anthony Uwa, said the project, when fully implemented over the next eight years, has the capacity to create over 10 million direct and indirect jobs for Nigerians.

The minister, in a presentation, said the discovery has helped the government in saving approximately N119 billion.

The initiative, according to the chairman of the NPC, Chief Festus Odimegwu, is one of the measures to address the security challenges in the country.

The NPC boss, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja when he visited the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Prof. Babatunde Osotemehin.

In the Bodija area of Ibadan, Oyo State, some of those registered claimed that their finger prints were not taken during registration.At the weekend, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had gone to three different registration points to register but his finger prints were not captured by the machines.

Another agency of government- the National Population Commission has the mandate of determining the numerical strength of the Nigerian population. In doing so, the commission would need to have an accurate record of each person who claims to be a Nigerian. As a result, the commission considers it expedient to subject us all to a biometrics exercise. Thus, the Identity Commission and the Population Commission are two government bodies that have in their records, names, face recognition, fingerprints and other details of all Nigerians.

However, political parties and other stakeholders opposed the idea. They cautioned against jumping from the frying pan to fire. They submitted that e-voting had not insulated many countries from electoral fraud, pointing out that computer can also be manipulated to do the bidding of master riggers.