LAGOS STATE SCHOLARSHIP BOARD PARTNERS LASRRA
The Lagos State Scholarship Board is set to begin the process that would allow it and the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency (LASRRA) to partner with each other in a bid to reduce to the barest minimum situations of Identity Theft and take the Board to a great and enviable level.
Mr. Abdul-Rahman Lekki, The Executive Secretary of the Board stated this during his recent visit to the General Manager of LASRRA, Mrs. Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola at her office in Ikeja, Lagos.
He expressed his appreciation for the two Agencies working together to accomplish the shared objective of advancing the State by ensuring that all current and prospective students who apply for bursaries and scholarships are included in LASRRA’s clean data through a proper, unique biometric identification exercise that may also be connected to other activities the students engage in.
āAside from getting student registered with LASRRA, they will also key into other initiatives that come with registering, validating and having the LAG-ID cards in their hands. It would gladden my heart if LASRRAās registration/validation link is made accessible on the Boardās portal to make it seamless for students that are not residing or schooling in Lagos, synchronisation of the two systems for handshaking will be very much appreciatedā, Lekki said.
The Executive Secretary admitted that the students’ and prospective applicants’ supply of their bio-data is not enough. Also, the lack of integration into the NIMC Portal for their National Identity Number (NIN) is a great challenge.
The General Manager of LASRRA, Adebiyi-Abiola said that the partnership is possible and that the Board could be onboarded on the Agencyās Application Programming Interface (API).
Ā āWhen the Agency onboard you, you can use it to check the authenticity of students when the need arises. Once they have registered or validated, and the LAG-ID card number is input, it will bring out other details”, she explained.
Lagos State Scholarship Board is a governmental body that oversees and manages matters relating to scholarship, education and bursary in Lagos State. It administers and awards bursaries and scholarships to all deserving indigenes and recently extended to indigents and some People Living with Disabilities (PWDs) who are residents in Lagos running full-time courses in Tertiary Institutions within the State/Country.