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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
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Death Registration System in Nigeria
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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
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General Apathy towards reporting death event
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Cost of death certificate
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Inadequate registration centre given the huge land mass of Nigeria
(992 sq km)
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Customs and traditions especially in reporting still-birth
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Inadequate specialist to ascertain cause of death
Strategies to Address bottleneck
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Advocacy through the media and other medium to enlighten the general
people on the importance of death registration
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Collaboration with State and Local government in providing awareness
to the grass-root, logistics and personnel in the registration centre in
their locality
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Continuous capacity building for specialised medical personnel to
ascertain cause of death
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Improve funding for the registration agency
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Employment of professionals to the registration agency
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