Mayowa Olaniyan

Chams Holdco

Chams Holdco is Nigeria's leading provider of integrated identity management and payment systems. Over the last 3 decades, Chams has evolved from a computer and hardware maintenance to providing enterprise technology solutions in the identity management and transaction payments space to public and private sector institutions. We have been part of every major success story in Identity management in Nigeria since 1992 to date. Owing to our experience and expertise, we have built robust, secure and adaptable platforms to drive identity management, identity transactions and verification services for public and private sector initiatives and businesses. Incorporated in 1985, we have grown from a privately owned business to a publicly quoted company listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In the identity management space, Chams executed identification and verification related projects for institutions that include INEC, NCC, NHIS, PeNCOM, ICAN, Customs, Nigerian AirFORCE, NAHCO, Head of Service of the Federation, Osun state, Anambra State, Ogun State, Adamawa State, Benue State, Government and Private educational institutions, private sector organisations. Currently, we are working with the government of Oyo State in the IGR collection and Resident Registration in Osun State. The successful execution of Nigeria's banking industry Bank Verification Number Project for the identification and verification of bank customers could not be mentioned without including Chams Holdco; we handled the execution and deployment of the solutions and agents for the project. The multi-million dollar project is an initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Banker's Committee, and is the first banking industry biometrics identity matching solution in the global financial market.