Nigeria, May 30 -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has said registering a child at birth could help in addressing population crisis in Nigeria.

UNICEF's child protection specialist, Fatimah Adamu, while speaking during a two-day media dialogue in Kano Sate on Monday, said birth registration is the core part of identity document for every child.

Ms Adamu said the first right of every child is the identification of the child at birth which she noted can be done through birth registration.

"Birth registration helps in addressing a lot of issues like population, resource distributions, issues of planning, issues of access to services, hence it is important for every child to be registered at birth," she said.

Ms Adamu said Ni...