NIMC, PenCom integration boosts fight against corruption in pension system

Top management staff of National Identity Management Commission with members of Guild Corporate Online Publishers at the event.

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Chuks Udo Okonta

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said its integration with National Pension Commission (PenCom) operations has strengthened the fight against corruption in pension system.

The Director-General NIMC Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, disclosed this yesterday at the ongoing NIMC, ID4D Two-Day Roundtable with Online Publishers in Lagos, stating that the integration has helped the pension sector in the verification of retirees.

According to her the yearly pensioners verification exercise conducted by PenCom, has been seamless with the integration, adding that presently, no retiree can access his or her pension benefits without the National Identity Number (NIN).

She submitted that as at July 2025, over 122 million Nigerians have secured the National Identity Number (NIN), while SIM-NIN linkage reached 172.67 million as at May 2025, stressing that the commission hopes to register 95 per cent of Nigerians by end of December 2025.

She called on Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government that are yet to integrate the operations with NIMC to urgently do so.

According to her, the identity ecosystem in Nigeria was once fragmented, revenue-gulping and exclusionary, but today,, that story is changing, noting that through collaboration with its stakeholders, it is building a unified, secure, and people-centered ID system—one that is becoming the cornerstone of national planning, financial inclusion, economic empowerment and digital governance.