• EZE PHILIPS IFEANYI
• THEOPHILUS ANIEMEKA ENEM

Abstract Nigeria has known the importance and the use of fingerprint biometric technology in elections, identifications, authentications, banking as well as other applications.. One crucial area where they have not fully deployed this technology is in population census. Credible population figures had proven to be a vital tool in policy formulation, amenities distribution and governance in general. This work analyses the use of fingerprint biometric technology as a veritable tool for accurate and generally acceptable enumeration figures. From this work we discover that most citizens at the age of eighteen years must have had his fingerprint captured for one transaction or the other. The data captures from various Institutions ought to be synchronized and this technology should also be deployed to birth centers like maternities and hospitals.

Census, Biometric, Fingerprint, Technology, Figures

"FINGERPRINT BIOMETRICS TECHNOLOGY: A TOOL TO ACHIEVING A CREDIBLE NIGERIA POPULATION CENSUS FIGURES ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.c59-c68, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209226.pdf

"FINGERPRINT BIOMETRICS TECHNOLOGY: A TOOL TO ACHIEVING A CREDIBLE NIGERIA POPULATION CENSUS FIGURES ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppc59-c68, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209226.pdf