{"id":22772,"date":"2018-09-04T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22772"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:17:26","slug":"groping-in-the-dark-more-than-four-million-nigerian-children-are-unaccounted-for-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/groping-in-the-dark-more-than-four-million-nigerian-children-are-unaccounted-for-each-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Groping in the dark: More than four million Nigerian children are unaccounted for each year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"post-author-name\">Chikezie OMEJE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Each year, more than seven million babies \u2013 equal to the population of Sierra Leone \u2013 are born in Nigeria.\u00a0 But over four million of these babies do not exist legally because their births are not registered. They do not have a birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/crc\/files\/Rights_overview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article 7<\/a> points out that all children have the right to a legally registered name which is officially recognised by the government.<\/p>\n<p>But as important as birth registration is in child protection, it is an afterthought in Nigeria. \u00a0Last year, only 2.6 million children under the age of one were registered by the National Population Commission (NPC). This year so far, 1.6 million infants have been registered, despite the fact that the law stipulates that birth should be registered within 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icirnigeria.org\/groping-in-the-dark-more-than-four-million-nigerian-children-are-unaccounted-for-each-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.icirnigeria.org\/groping-in-the-dark-more-than-four-million-nigerian-children-are-unaccounted-for-each-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chikezie OMEJE Each year, more than seven million babies \u2013 equal to the population of Sierra Leone \u2013 are born in Nigeria.\u00a0 But over four million of these babies do not exist legally because their births are not registered. They do not have a birth certificate. The UN Convention on the Rights of the [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-642","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22773,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions\/22773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}