The National Population Commission (NPC) says it will register 12.72 million of less than five years children in 2023 to improve child birth registration in the country. NPC Director of Vital Registration Department Matthew Sunday announced this during an orientation on Micro Plan Development for Integrated Birth Registration in Minna on Monday. The News Agency
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday that decentralisation, digitisation, and interoperability would drive the registration of the birth of 12.7 million children across the country in 2023. UNICEF Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, Dr Wilfred Mamah, said this at the state-level kick-off operational plan for the 2023 registration exercise for
Birukila pointed out that only 57 per cent of children under five years of age were registered in Nigeria in 2021, leaving a gap of 43 per cent. | Pulse Nigeria