Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
20 million children are being considered for the Integrated Birth Registration uptake approach, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said.
Mohammed stated this in Lagos on Monday at a two-day media dialogue on 2018 Media campaign for promoting birth registration in 18 states and the FCT.
The minister who was represented by the Deputy Director/ Head, Advocacy Child Rights Information Bureau (CRIB), Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Olumide Osanyinpeju, noted that the need to give an identity to every Nigerian child can only be achieved through birth registration.
He said using the 2017 under-five population projections, state peculiarities, funding window and geopolitical zones, no less than 18 states, including the FCT, are likely to benefit from the initiative.