The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, under the governorship of
Mr. Lamido Sanusi in conjunction with Bankers Committee has adopted
finger-print identification by bank customers next year, 2014. Present at the meeting
in Abuja last week are the Group Managing Directors of Access Bank Plc. First
Bank of Nigeria Limited, United Bank for Africa Plc. Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.
and Skye Bank Plc. With this, bank customers all over Nigeria will be
identified with their fingerprint.
However, CBN has awarded the
$50m project to a German based company known as Dermalog and has mandated the company to deliver in 90 days. First stage of the
project will connect the central data to the banks as well as the central bank
and the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System.
We are very optimistic that by February 14, 2014, the system
would become fully operational.
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