By Samuel Oyejola
In its bid to reduce the increasing unemployment rate in the country, a government/ private collaboration is set to employ 5000 youths in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for its pilot programme that would eventually cover the whole country.
The Basic Registry and Information System in Nigeria (BRISIN) according to Dr. Anthony Uwa of the BRISIN Implementation stated this during a media parley organized to engage journalists on Friday in Abuja on the benefit of BRISIN to the development of the country.
Uwa explained that BRISIN would contribute to the reposition of Nigeria to meet the dream of becoming one of the developed nations in the world.
According to Uwa, the contribution of the Federal Government welled from its the government believe that the BRISIN will be a fundamental foundation to start with, creating job, opportunities, at all level and reduce corruption, fight criminality and promote good governance.
He said that BRISIN would serve as a reference point, data and information repository for development planning and management of the economy and assist agencies of the government like National Population Commission seamlessly to obtain vital demographic statistics and population figure without necessarily conducting head count.
He also stated further that the beginning of the operation of BRISIN in 2018 is not a political strategy by the Buhari government but is being implemented by the present government as a continuum of what the Goodluck Jonathan-led government started.
He explained that BRISIN is operating a system of any nation that intends to develop all the sectors with an all-inclusive approach.
Speaking on funding of the programme, he said since the BRISIN would be funded through the effort of government at all levels, private citizens both within ad in diaspora, corporate organizations, development partners and religious leaders.
BRISIN is an integrated data and information infrastructure system built to give a solid foundation for technological and socio-economic development of Nigeria. The system is designed in a way that will house databases of citizens, residents’ and their economic activities that is lined to their wards, local government headquarters and to the central system is the federal.
