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Jonathan / BuhariDirector-General / CEO, National Identity Management Commission· October 2015 — 14 August 2021

Aliyu Abubakar Aziz

Led the NIN-SIM linkage policy (December 2020) that mass-enrolled 60+ million Nigerians into the National Identity Database.

The record

Aziz oversaw the December 2020 directive — issued jointly with the NCC — that made the NIN mandatory for SIM-card retention. Enrolment jumped from 41m (Dec 2020) to 73m (Aug 2021).

Sources

  • NIMC — Enrolment statistics dashboard, 2020–2021
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.