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Registration of Death in Nigeria

National Bureau of Statistics

Abuja, Nigeria

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Outline of Presentation

Death Registration System in Nigeria

Major Bottlenecks to Registration of Death

Strategies to Address bottleneck

Death Registration System in Nigeria

Registration of vital events is provided by Act No 69 of 1992. It provide at the apex of registration, the office of the Registrar General.

He issue general directives regarding registration of births and deaths Co-ordinate and unify the activities of all registration officials At State level there are 37 Chief Registrar responsible for overseeing

registration activities in each State At the Local government level, 774 Deputy chief registrar responsible

for implementation of the Act within the Local Government 2773 Registrar in all the registration centre in all the Local government

with the responsibility of registering all death

Major Bottlenecks to Registration of Death

General Apathy towards reporting death event

Cost of death certificate

Inadequate registration centre given the huge land mass of Nigeria (992 sq km)

Customs and traditions especially in reporting still-birth

Inadequate specialist to ascertain cause of death

Strategies to Address bottleneck

Advocacy through the media and other medium to enlighten the general people on the importance of death registration

Collaboration with State and Local government in providing awareness to the grass-root, logistics and personnel in the registration centre in their locality

Continuous capacity building for specialised medical personnel to ascertain cause of death

Improve funding for the registration agency

Employment of professionals to the registration agency

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