The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has solicited the collaboration of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) for the intensification of National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment across Yobe.
The NIMC State Coordinator, Mr Moses Fariku, made the remark during a courtesy visit to the NOA State Directorate in Damaturu on Wednesday.
Fariku underscored the strategic role of NOA in mobilising citizens through sustained sensitisation and community-based communication channels.
He expressed confidence that collaboration with the agency would strengthen enrollment, modification and recovery of NIN across the 17 local government areas of the state.
Leveraging NOA’s communication platforms will enhance public understanding of the benefits and mandatory nature of NIN registration,’’ he said.
In her remarks, the Acting State Director of NOA in Yobe, Hajiya Maryam Shettima, welcomed the NIMC delegation and assured the agency’s commitment to the partnership.
She pledged that NOA would intensify awareness campaigns and sensitisation activities in all the 178 political wards in the state.
Shettima said the agency would deploy its grassroots structures and stakeholders’ networks to ensure wider participation in the enrollment drive.
Newsmen reports that the collaboration is expected to improve access to NIN services and promote seamless registration processes across Yobe.