National Population Commission (NPC), with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has launched Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (E-CRVS) in Lagos. At a news conference on the E-CRVS, Federal Commissioner representing Lagos State, Mrs. Saidat Olayinka-Oladunjoye, said the system is aimed at improving quality of life and to ensure government’s commitment to transparency, accountability, and data-driven decision-making. She stressed …

The management of the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) has dissociated the Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr. Dili Ezughah, from the fake facebook and instagram accounts recently opened in his name. In a statement, NPC’s Director of Legal, Mrs. Ngozi Ikeyi said the Executive Secretary “is not on any of these aforementioned social media platforms, and he has never solicited …

Ahead of the 21 September Governorship Election in Edo State, Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday Okpebholo; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo; Labour Party (LP), Olumide Akpata, and 13 others will on 12 September sign a peace accord in Benin. The peace pact is being spearheaded by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee (NPC). Chairman of …

lectronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (ECRVS) will begin on 2 September in Lagos State. National Population Commission (NPC) has begun training ad hoc registrars across local governments. Federal Commissioner representing Lagos State, Mrs. Saidat Oladunjoye, while opening the training at Kosofe Local Government, said the training would be in two phases, while some councils were merged, depending on the …

President Bola Tinubu on Monday swore in two more commissioners-designate of the National Population Commission (NPC) Mr Fasuwa Johnson and Dr Amid Tadese Raheem from Ogun and Osun states respectively took the oath of office at 12:15 pm at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, after their abridged citations were read. Monday’s ceremony came three months after Tinubu, …

In anticipation of the inaugural digital Population and Housing Census, the chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Hon Nasir Isa Kwarra, has lauded the progress made in the construction of the NPC Disaster Recovery Centre Annex in Kaduna State. Kwarra, who led a delegation to the project site, stressed the imperative of adhering to job specifications by the contractor. …

The Nigeria Population Commission (NPC) said it has captured and registered 1,109,515 births in the last 11 months across Kano State’s 44 Local Government Areas. The Birth Registration Head of Department (HOD) in the Commission, Halima Inuwa, made this known during an interview with LEADERSHIP DAILY, noting that 1,035,022 births were captured digitally while 74, 493 were captured manually from …

100% Focus Group Movement, and Arewa Women for Tinubu/Shetima have congratulate their leader, Sa’adatu Dogon Bauchi Garba on her appointment as Federal Commissioner National Population Commission representing Kaduna State. In a statement by the Chairman 100% Focus Group, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed, the groups extend their appreciation to the President Bola Tinubu for the appointment, describing Bauchi as a round peg …

The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that it has put everything in place to conduct the 2023 population and housing census. During an interactive session on Wednesday with media executive in Yola, the state capital, on the status of preparations for the census, the Federal Commissioner in Adamawa State, Mr. Clifford Zirra stated that the commission was only waiting …

The Federal Commissioner representing Edo State in the National Population Commission, Dr. Tony Aiyejina said on Wednesday that the shift in the 2023 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),was the major reason why the NPC had to postpone the 2023 population census. Aiyejina, who disclosed this at an interactive media chat organised by the commission in Benin …