Aziz Honoured by Secure Identity Alliance in France

The immediate past Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, a seasoned Public Servant and Administrator, was recently recognised and presented with an award in Paris, France, by the Secure Identity Alliance (SIA) Initiative as a founding member of the body and Pioneer Chairman of its Advisory Council. 

The Organisation observed that Aziz played the role well in ensuring universal interoperability framework and standards were formulated for the identity industry with the highest level of international acceptance/adoption by ICAO, and getting fair contractual/technology services implementation deals for the NIMC and other technology-dependent agencies in Nigeria in both the Public and Private sectors. The positive outcome from that endeavour was the influencing of the European Economic Interest Groups under the SIA’s decisions on Nigeria and Africa as a whole. 

TheAlliance described Aziz as an asset whose expertise and experience are yet to be fully utilised by the identity industry and therefore an asset in the horizon for the international community to draw from.