The National Population Commission on Monday lamented that 43 per cent of Nigerian children, under the ages of five, legally do not exist.The commission said apathy towards registration of deaths had compounded this to make statistics needed for national planning and development inadequate.Delivering a keynote address at the Orientation Workshop on Birth Registration Messaging in Kaduna, a NPC programme sponsored by United Nations International Children Education Fund, the Chairman of the NPC, Mr. Eze Duruiheoma, said, “In Nigeria, according to the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey, birth registration of children under five years, is 57 per cent while the remaining 43 per cent remains unregistered, and in legal terms, do not exist,”The NPC chairman, who was represented by the commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Simon Otene, explained that ignorance of mothers and care givers on the importance of registering the births of their new born and obtaining certificates as evidence were responsible for this scenario.He said, “The problem is compounded by the fact that three in every five births (62 per cent of all births) occur at home and only 35 per cent of births in Nigeria is delivered in health facilities.“The Demographic and Health Survey data indicated that women in urban areas are more than twice as likely to deliver in a health facility than their rural counterparts (60 per cent to 25 per cent)”He said the South-East had the highest proportion of institutional deliveries of 74 per cent, followed by South-West with 70 per cent, while the North West has the lowest with eight per cent.He added that women with higher levels of educational attainment were more likely to deliver in a health facility than women with lower or no education.The NPC chairman noted that women with more than secondary school education had 90 per cent, nine times more likely  than women with no education at 10 per cent likelihood of delivery at a health facility.


http://www.punchng.com/politics/43-of-nigerian-children-dont-exist-npc/

We need proper data;that is one major reasons we are not planning

Na today?

Hmmmmmm!
What a 'kauntry'!

Poor documentation is a common feature of our systems.

really this guy should just shut up for once!!!


blasting trash about stats we aren't completely sure of.

with all the funding we get from international bodies we don't have a reliable data.

we know that educated women and those in the urban areas will obviously go to an hospital to give birth and register their children compared to the uneducated and the ones in the rural areas who still believe in the traditional methods of giving birth.

whose fault is it? the government esp the state and local government have a big hand to play in this.

lack of health cares facilities even the ones available are very poor.
high rate of poverty
high rate of illiteracy.
millions of people still die yearly due to malaria and other diseases.

what has the chairman done to enlighten people in the rural area about this?
has he written any appeal to the government?
does he truly care??

na just to open mouth and speak poo. smh

even the so called federal government are they even concerned?

just giving stats with no solution or way forward is just stupîdity!!

nonsense and ingredient!!!