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The approval was given yesterday at the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The new cards constitute the second phase of the 40 million permanent voters' cards printed in 2011 and will be used for the 2015 general elections.
Addressing journalists after the council meeting, Information Minister Labaran Maku said after deliberations, the council approved the contract at the rate of N65 per card.
He said the contract was awarded to Messrs ACT Technologies Limited with a completion period of six months.
"Following the successful conduct of the nationwide voters' registration exercise in 2011, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) proposed to print 73.5 million voters' permanent cards to replace the temporary voters' cards issues during the voters' registration exercise. The commission printed 40 million permanent cards in 2011 for the first phase of the project which is still in progress. There is the need to print and issue the remaining 33.5 million permanent voters' cards in this second phase," a memo presented by President Goodluck Jonathan at the council meeting read in part.
According to the minister, the approval is coming ahead of a proposed scheme that would integrate the national identification cards as voters' cards during the 2019 general elections and subsequent ones.
He added that the cards would be embedded with such personal information of the electorate as bio data, photographs and other biometric details.
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