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"THE decision of the Federal Government to redesignate, and up-grade the hitherto moribund national identity card scheme into a 'universal I.D. card' project, must rank as one of the most curious emanations from the Obasanjo-led government in recent times.
Rising from a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting last week, government had announced that plans are on to up-grade the 'present' National Identification, which has been in the making for almost 30 years. The new improved contraption will be a one-stop 'universal' I.D. card that would contain more than the conventionally legal and acceptable personal records of individual holders."
