NPC begins digital birth registration in 774 LGAs
NPC boss, Nasir Isa Kwarra. * As UNICEF laments low record, promises to assist NPC in registration By Abimbola Oloyede, with NAN report IN order to update children birth registration in Nigeria, National Population Commission, NPC, will soon commence digital birth registration in all the 774 local government areas across the country. Chairman, National Population Commission, NPC, Nasir Isa Kwarra, stated this, at a press briefing to mark the 2021 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day in Abuja recently. He said the existence of accurate, regular and reliable statistics was imperative for evidence-based decision making in any country, as well as during emergency response. Kwarra said that the commission had commenced the digitisation of all the registration centres in the 774 LGA headquarters. He said the commission was worried about the low rate of birth registration in the country due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic that has weakened the structures of the civil registrati...