The Federal Government has approved the development of an Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System for keeping electronic records of birth and death registrations.
The Spokesman for the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, Ifeanyi Nwoko, made this known in a statement, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
The commission said N5.3 billion private sector funds would be injected by the concessionaire Messrs Barnksforte Technologies for the eCRVS, while the National Population Commission would be the project grantor.
The project, according to him, seeks to capture and verify births and deaths in Nigeria and provide attestation and verification of certificates to end users on the platform.
Nwoko said, “Prior to this, these registrations have been carried out manually, a process that has been characterised by low coverage and inadequate data.”
The commission also explained that the federal government approved the establishment of an Aviation Leasing Company under a Public Private Partnership.
The approval was reportedly given to inject private sector funds into infrastructure development and boost the nation’s economic growth. The commission said both approvals were given following the issuance of Full Business Case compliance certificates by ICRC, the agency statutorily established to regulate PPPs.
The ICRC said the ALC, which Messrs AJW Consortium would execute as concessionaires, seeks to provide an opportunity for local aircraft leases to both domestic and international carriers.
