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FEC approves digital registration of IDPs, establishment of entrepreneurship centre November 11, 2020   in   News ,  News Update By Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja No fewer than three million Nigerians, equivalent to one percent of the nation’s population, are currently displaced from their homes, now living in various Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps across the country. However, to fully capture their accurate number and make adequate provisions for their well-being, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the formulation of a National Policy for Digital Identification for Internally Displaced Person. Disclosing this to State House Correspondents after the week’s FEC meeting, which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Executive Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, also informed of the approval by Council for the establishment of the National Digital Innovatio...