Population Commission establishes 4,011 digital birth, death registration centres nationwide

The National Population Commission, NPC, has established 4,011 integer registration centres crossed Nigeria’s 774 section authorities areas to electronically registry births and deaths.

The determination is portion of efforts to modernise the country’s civilian registration system.

The Federal Commissioner representing Cross River State astatine the NPC, Barrister Alex Ukam, disclosed this during a property briefing successful Calabar on Thursday.

Representing the NPC Chairman, Dr Aminu Ibrahim Yusuf, Ukam said the integer registration workout commenced connected July 1, 2026, with plans already underway to grow the fig of registration centres to 8,000 crossed the country.

He said the inaugural marks the afloat implementation of Nigeria’s Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, CRVS, system, which is designed to guarantee that births and deaths are registered promptly, accurately and electronically.

According to him, the caller level volition regenerate the mostly manual process, offering 24-hour online services, faster processing, reduced paperwork, integer certificates wherever applicable, and improved accuracy successful record-keeping.

“The strategy volition service arsenic a foundational database that supports different nationalist information systems and has been designed for unafraid interoperability with authorities institutions crossed Nigeria’s integer i...