The Federated Identity Management (FIM) services offered by Eko-Konnect provides a secure and privacy-preserving trust fabric for research and higher education institutions and their service provider partners.  We offer users (students, lecturers, researchers etc.) secure access, and easy deployment of your institutions SAML Identity Provider to connect your institution’s identity management system to the eduid.africa service. By joining the Eko-Konnect Federation which is part of the Nigerian Identity federation, institutions will have access to an increasing number of online NREN services.