The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has completed the migration of data from its old system to a new national identification platform, successfully transferring 28,571,893 records and achieving 100 percent migration.

Speaking at a press conference at Police Headquarters in Naguru, NIRA Registrar Claire Ollama said that the mass enrollment and ID renewal exercise began on May 27, 2025, ran for six months, and was later extended by three months, officially ending on February 8, 2026.

She explained that the project aimed to migrate data, enroll 17.2 million Ugandans, renew expired national IDs, update personal details, and issue cards to eligible children.

Ollama noted that renewals and updates reached 14,311,877 people, representing 90.5 percent of the target, while new enrollments stood at 37.3 percent, largely due to challenges in registering children.

She added that NIRA printed over 10.1 million cards, dispatched 7.2 million nationwide, and issued 2.05 million. With migrated and new records combined, Uganda’s national register now holds biometric data for over 35 million citizens.

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