Phase 1
‍170 million fingerprints, 17 million facial IDs, 17 million textual records and 17 million manual signatures were migrated into NIMC’s ABIS. Because of broadband challenges, the project took much longer than it should have. Phase 1 of this project helped double the total number of enrolled citizens by NIMC. Orado Technologies designed the project, developed the Statement of Work (SOW), set up the environment and project plan, developed / implemented the migration scripts, verified the load, conversion and migration statistics and generally implemented the first part of the project before handing off to NIMC.

Phase 2
‍In February 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Orado technologies reopened discussions on the Phase 2 of this project. In this phase, 32 million more NIBSS records are to be migrated into NIMC’s ABIS. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between NIBSS and NIMC recognizing Orado Technologies as consultants and managers of the project, under the guidance of the CBN. When completed, this second phase of the project is expected to migrate 320 million fingerprints, 32 million facial IDs, 32 million manual signatures and 32 million textual records, thus swelling up NIMC’s database further and making it the single largest biometric database in Africa and one of the most reliable in the world.