By Tosin Adesile
Non-availability of a centralised data in Nigeria is a big
issue as far as the economic issue is concerned because it has continued to
waste the country resources wasting efforts as well as manpower. A centralised
database is a database that is located, stored and mainland in a single
location.
You would
agree with me from a national identity card, one’s information should be easily
accessed for the purpose of international passport, drivers licence, Permanent
voters card, Federal road safety corps Drivers licence and phase away multiplicity
of id cards project embarked upon by past administration. All of the
information stored on the CBS is accessible from a large number of different
points, which in turn creates a significant amount of both advantages and
disadvantages.
This
automatically phases out various agencies spending government money in taka
people’s data which might not available for another future exercise. Why is
that the country cannot established an agency in custody of Nigerians database
which will reduce the overbearing cost of running government.
Permanent
Voters Card, (PVC) was seen in active role during the recently conducted
election that Nigeria is gradually growing and need the support of all and
sundry. A further behaviour of non-challancy as far as data base is concern which
will have adequate effect on the economy.
More important,
past agencies that have handed such data base before should go to the office of
Statistic and remits the information on hand. PMB can do it fine by making sure
the international word would give us the necessary respects.
The NIMC in-charge
of the national identity card and FRSC should henceforth work together with the
presidency in order to help solve this anomaly. part of the benefits of this is
Data integrity, Data preservation as well as information can be accessed at the
same time. On the other side, Centralised databases are highly dependent on
network connectivity while there is slower internet connection and it makes it
harder for database to be accessed on time.But in all,a country like Nigeria needs a uniform database. Most government have used various opportunity hiding under id projects to dig deep in the nations purse since we cannot lay claim to a a particular one.
We can do it,our leaders do travel out while over 35% of the population who have the opportunity to have traveled as well for one reason or the other can also attest to the fact that other countries of the world use this central data base system and cannot be left out.
Since we are in the change period, it
is advised that the president takes serious the issue of a centralised database
for the entire country once and for all so we can move ahead.
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