KELECHUKWU IRUOMA JOINING several other countries, including Kenya, Uganda and India, Nigeria's government is in the process of rolling out a digital identity system to enable easier access to public and private services. But, like those and other digital ID projects around the world, Nigeria's initiative has been dogged by privacy concerns, with citizens and rights groups saying the country's lack of data protection leaves their personal information open to abuse. By October 2020, six years after the government launched a national electronic identity card, less than a quarter of Nigeria's 200 million people had signed up for a National…