Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on December 22, 2020, 10:03 AM

Poor NIMC: its website goes down as people rush for National Identity Number. They could connect with my classmate since NIMC’s options are limited. NIMC cannot use Google, Amazon, IBM or Microsoft as none has a datacenter in Nigeria and the new NITDA regulations will not offer an exemption for public data. Layer3Cloud, founded by my classmate Oyaje Idoko, can help them. The FUTOite will build a scalable hosting that can support any traffic. I call it a triple-level protection: hosted in Abuja, run by Nigerians and complies with NITDA.

The official website of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has gone down as Nigerians struggle to obtain their National Identity Number (NIN). The website has been down since the late hours of Monday. This newspaper reported how hundreds of people gathered at a registration office in Lagos Monday as residents struggled to register for the NIN.