National Population Commission

NPC registers over 10m children nationwide

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NPC registers over 10m children nationwide

The National Population Commission (NPC) said it has successfully registered more than 10 million children and issued birth certificates across Nigeria. This was made known in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by the Director Public Affairs Department of NPC, Talibat Oloruntoba, According to the statement, the Chairman of NPC, Nasir Kwarra, during a … Read more

Nigeria intensifies efforts to digitalise birth, death registrations

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Nigeria intensifies efforts to digitalise birth, death registrations

Over the years, birth registrations in Nigeria have been paper-based, with the attendant consequences of low and inefficient documentation of births, but the National Population Commission (NPC) is set to digitalise the process. In November, President Bola Tinubu launched the electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (e-CRVS), a digital platform for the documentation of … Read more