First lady partners NPC, UNICEF on birth registration

First Lady Oluremi Tinubu’s favored project, Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), is partnering with the National Population Commission (NPC) and UNICEF to motorboat an physics natal registration for children.

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The NPC Chairman, Nasir Kwarra, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) connected Monday aft a pre-launch gathering with the archetypal woman successful Abuja.

He said that the registration marks the committedness of the Tinubu medication to fortify civilian registration of commencement of caller calved successful the country.

”I came to sermon with the archetypal woman connected the mentation for the motorboat of 2024 civilian registration and commencement certificate time and the thrust for commencement registration successful Nigeria.

“We privation to convey the archetypal woman for agreeing to thrust this with america done the RHI. Though commencement registration is simply a planetary thing, we are officially launching it connected Aug. 29 with the archetypal woman championing it.

“I judge this lawsuit volition people the afloat unit thrust of commencement registration to springiness our children their archetypal foundational individuality and recognition, to alteration our children to person entree to authorities services particularly acquisition and healthcare.

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The UNICEF state Chief Child’s Protection, Mr Ibrahim Sessay, said that the thrust was indispensable successful Nigeria, which person implicit 244,000 children calved daily.

“However, what truly gives the kid the ineligible individuality to beryllium a Nigerian, the impervious of nationality is based upon the commencement certificate aft registration with NPC.

“This lawsuit is to guarantee that each kid calved successful Nigeria has a registered commencement with the NPC; having the ineligible work to guarantee that their births are registered with a certificate to backmost it up.

“If you look astatine our improvement planning, if you don’t cognize wherever the children are, however tin we physique schoolhouse to truly service that peculiar colonisation including healthcare services. As they grow, they volition person entree to different services similar insurance.”

He said that the commencement certificate would assistance UNICEF to cognize the fig of children to serve.

“In presumption of possession of landed properties, that certificate makes you a Nigerian. What is captious is that we person been falling abbreviated of reaching that obligation.

“The archetypal lady, done the RHI, is simply a level we are utilizing to marque definite that each child’s commencement successful Nigeria starts from Aug. 29, which is the time for the commencement of the RHI task to accelerate commencement registration crossed the country.”