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The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the plan to unveil a birth, death, and marriage registration portal.
This development was made known by the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Kwara, during a pre-launch briefing on Monday, stating that the registration system includes all civil registrations such as birth registration, stillbirth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration and death.
He noted that the initiative aims to accelerate the improved civil registration and vital statistics systems in Nigeria over ten years, from 2023 to 2030.
“It aims to accelerate the improved civil registration and vital statistics systems in Nigeria over 10 years, from 2023 to 2030 in a bid to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal,” he said.
The chairman stated that the commission, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), developed the e-CRVS Operational Readiness Assessment Report, which showed the potential of digital technologies in providing transformative outcomes in CRVS and integrating data from multiple systems to securely store data at scale, in a cost-effective way in Nigeria.
The NPC chairman noted that the system provides a digital certificate in all cases, an accessible verification platform to registered organizations, and a central management system (dashboard) that depicts and analyses collated civil registrations into vital statistics for proper decision-making.