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NITDA and NIMC Deepen Partnership to Accelerate Nigeria's Digital Public Infrastructure
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22 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Nigeria's NITDA and NIMC have formalised a partnership to build unified digital public infrastructure, with NITDA transferring its Public Key Infrastructure to NIMC under the new NIMC Act 2026. The collaboration targets nationwide identity enrolment across all 8,809 wards and establishes harmonised cybersecurity and digital trust standards.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
Nigeria just centralised digital identity infrastructure under one authority with legal backing and PKI control. If you're building fintech, healthtech, or any service requiring customer identity verification in Nigeria, you now have one API to integrate against rather than multiple competing systems.
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◆ Topics
Data Infrastructure · Cybersecurity · digital-identity · public-infrastructure · pki-consolidation · financial-inclusion · nigeria-dpi