Nigeria, Feb. 27 -- The National Population Commission (NPC) has stopped the manual process of registering applicants seeking birth attestation certificates in Abuja.

This comes days after a PREMIUM TIMES investigation published last Saturday exposed how NPC officials had been taking advantage of the manual process of issuing hard-copy birth certificates to extort applicants across the country.

On a visit to the NPC's annexe office at 17, Lingu Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja, where the agency had been manually registering applicants and issuing them hard-copy certificates, on Tuesday, our reporter found out that the notice that was pasted on the gate inviting applicants to walk into the offices for the registration process had been removed.

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