Nigeria to set up digital CRVS system with $11M private sector funding

Nigeria’s federal government recently approved plans to digitize birth and death registrations and the sum of 5.3 billion Naira (US$11.5 million) is to be provided by a private sector partner for the setting up of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) system.

According to a press release issued by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, the body that oversees Public-Private Partnership engagements of the federal government, the funding for the project will be provided by Messrs Barnksforte Technologies Limited, an …

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