The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has signed a deal with FATA Super System Limited to produce digital identification cards for its members in the country.
The President of the Association, Comrade Ahmed Aigbona said the development is to take the Association to the next level in the emerging digital world.
Aigbona said “the process which is properly documented is focused on adding a new line of registering its members as this will open up new doors for the Association’s quest to operate in line with the happenings in the global level.
The Association, he said, is driven to add much effective changes in registering its members across the country. On its part, the Chief Executive Oficcer of FATA Super System Limited, Dr. Fatai Aliu said it was interesting that the Association is first among the media world to embark on the biometric digitalisation of its membership cards which is universally acknowledged.
Aliu said that this will open the door for more relationship with the media and promised not to disappoint the Association. According to him, Nigeria as at today has no universal identification numbers that can be used to recognise them anywhere in the world.
He said, that with the registration which will use facial biometrics as against the fingerprints biometrics, will see the members getting their data enclosed in the online process which they can access anywhere in the world.
The agreement which was signed late Friday at the headquarters of FATA Super System Limited, in Abuja is the beginning of the National Executive of SWAN effort to give a new direction for the Association.
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