DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR NATIONAL IDENTITY NUMBER (NIN) ENROLLMENT EXERCISE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This study aims to develop a scheduling system for the National Identity Number (NIN) enrolment exercise, which will be used by Nigerian citizens for scheduling NIN applicant slot for the enrolment exercise, thus reducing and possibly avoiding in the queue, needless waiting. The research objectives are to, elicit knowledge on the user and system requirements of the national ID card reservation information system; Furthermore, to specify the design of the system; and also, to implement a prototype system and test the system prototype. In other to carry out the objectives of this project, several methods were adopted which are not limited to, the review of related works, the specified design of the scheduling system using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and also, the implementation of a prototype system using the Java programming language. The result of the study showed different expectations of the study based on the stated objectives. The scheduling system allowed the reservation for the primary user of the proposed system, which the applicant of the NIN. The result showed that the secondary user can view records of schedules made by applicants. In conclusion, this study implemented the design of a scheduling system for the National Identity Number enrolment exercise. The study was able to identify the respective user and system requirements of the system and appropriate designs were used to specify these requirements provided by the users using use-case and class diagrams. The study also concluded that users can be able to make schedules through the scheduling system.