Makama spoke at an interactive session with newsmen at the Kaduna State office of the commission, on Monday, in Kaduna, adding that the Federal Government should ensure the conduct of the next census in Nigeria in 2016 as about 65 per cent of the estimated five million children born in Nigeria every year had not been registered.
According to Makama, only 35 per cent had been covered in the registration of births and deaths in Nigeria, while the commission’s target was a hundred per cent coverage of births and deaths by 2015.
“The current level of 35 per cent constituted a hindrance to the nation’s desire to meet the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals. To ensure adequate coverage of births and deaths, NPC established 2,322 centres across the country with an average of three in each of the 774 local government areas,” he said.
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