3.5m Unregistered Children Risk Exclusion- UNICEF

3.5m Unregistered Children Risk Exclusion- UNICEF

More than 3.5 million children across six South-West states and Edo State remain unregistered at birth, leaving them without official legal identity. The United Nations Children’s Fund issued the warning during an advocacy dialogue on civil registration alongside the National Population Commission. Celine Lafoucriere, chief of the UNICEF Lagos Field Office, revealed that millions of…

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NPC Launches Self-Service Birth Registration Portal

  Millions of Nigerians who have spent years chasing paper trails for a document as basic as a birth certificate now have a digital route, following the full rollout of the National Population Commission’s electronic civil registration platform. The commission’s chairman, Dr Aminu Yusuf, announced at a press briefing in Abuja that the VitalReg platform,…

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