The National Population Commission (NPC) has registered and offered birth certificates to over 10 million children born in 2024 nationwide, its chairman, Alhaji Nasir Isa Kwarra, has said.
Kwarra announced this while addressing reporters after the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, presented a birth certificate to the Baby of the Year at the Asokoro General Hospital yesterday in Abuja.
Represented by the commission’s Federal Commissioner from Katsina State, Mr. Bala Banya, the NCP chairman promised to ensure that every child born in Nigeria is registered and offered a birth certificate.
The chairman noted that with the digitisation of the registration system and collaboration with the Primary Health Care Agency, children would be registered wherever they are born.
He advised all parents and guardians to register their children, saying the process is totally free.
NCP’s Director General, Dr. Telson Osifo Ojogun, said the commission had concluded plans to establish over 400 registration centres throughout the country to bring registration closer to the people.
The director general said the NCP was leveraging technology to ensure that every child registered got an identity that would not be duplicated anywhere.
He expressed appreciation to the First Lady, who was represented by the wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Nana Shettima, for presenting the certificate to the baby of the year.
Dr. Ojogun also urged Nigerians to register the deaths of citizens with the commission to enable it maintain a clean register.
