UNICEF to support birth registration for 1M Nigerian children in 2023

The Nigeria office of the United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) says it is working with local authorities in Bauchi State to issue birth certificates to 1,080,984 children of five years or younger this year.

According to reports in the local media, the target is prompted by a survey which showed that 61.7 percent of all children in the north-eastern state were not registered at birth in 2021.

At a recent planning meeting to discuss ways of scaling up birth registration …

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