{"id":20576,"date":"2018-10-26T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=20576"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:48:35","slug":"nigeria-population-commission-frustrates-birth-registration-by-charging-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-population-commission-frustrates-birth-registration-by-charging-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Population Commission Frustrates Birth Registration By Charging Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Francis Arinze Iloani<\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The National Population Commission (NPC) is frustrating birth registration by charging applicants N4500 before issuing them birth certificates, Daily Trust&#8217;s investigation has shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund&#8217;s (UNICEF) factsheet on birth registration in Nigeria reveals that about 70 per cent of the 7 million children born annually in Nigeria are not being registered at birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">A source within the commission told this paper in confidence that under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) the commission granted a private company the right to collect N3, 000 per birth registration on a sharing arrangement that favours the service provider more than commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The arrangement is contrary to the message posted on the official website of the commission that &#8220;birth certificate is absolutely free of charge&#8221; and that it is issued to children from age zero to eighteen years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201810260074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201810260074.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Francis Arinze Iloani The National Population Commission (NPC) is frustrating birth registration by charging applicants N4500 before issuing them birth certificates, Daily Trust&#8217;s investigation has shown. The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund&#8217;s (UNICEF) factsheet on birth registration in Nigeria reveals that about 70 per cent of the 7 million children born annually in Nigeria are [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20577,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions\/20577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}