National Population Commission (NPC) has flagged off the digital registration of births and deaths in Niger State.
The commission’s chairman, Dr Aminù Yussuf, represented by the director in charge of the Niger State Office of NPC, Mallam Yusuf Musa Sabo, told journalists in Minna, that it was part of a nationwide full digital birth and death registration.
Yussuf said the effort would fast track civil registration, enhance the generation of vital statistics and ensure that every births and deaths are recorded through reliable digital platforms.
He said, “Today’s announcement marks the next critical step in our collective effort to build a modern, efficient and technology driven civil registration system that meets international standards and supports Mr President’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“This digital innovation is one of the most transformative reforms in the history of civil registration in Nigeria. It reflects the commission’s unwavering commitment to leverage technology to improve service delivery, strengthen data integrity and guarantee that every birth and every death occurring in Nigeria is documented accurately and securely,” he said.
Dr Yusuf said the registration would be done through “VitalReg ” platform under the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (E-CRVS) system.
He said beyond meeting the administrative civil registration requirements, the new system would contribute to reliable national statistics that guides public policy, resource allocation and reliable development planning.
Similarly he said the new system would address the problem of unregistered births and deaths adding that Nigeria records an estimated 5 million births annually, even as some were unregistered.
Consequently he disclosed that the NPC has established 4,011 functional registration centres across the 774 local government areas and would expand the centres to about 8000 very soon .
