43% of Nigerian children don’t have legal Identities
This means that 42.73 per cent of the children have no birth registration. This places 15.4 million children in Nigeria without birth registration/certificate.
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Numbers 2 Ponder: 48%, ₦212bn, ₦2.67bn, ₦50m, ₦90.5b
Today’s Numbers 2 Ponder features an unyielding sector draining the nation’s account, mind-numbing statistics on birth registration; present on the list are also court fines, loots and one rebuttal.
Birth Registration: Less than 4 in 10 children below five
In 2018, Nigeria’s records of registered children accounted for only 38.8% of infants aged less than two. And according to the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), Nigeria booked down only 48% of registered births for kids aged between 2 – 4 years in the same period.