 The House of Representatives has called for increased awareness in birth and death registration in the country. This decision follows the adoption of a motion moved by Honourable Bashiru Dawadu at Plenary on Tuesday. Honourable Dawadu in his motion bemoaned poor record keeping of birth registration by the National Population Commission, which he said accounts for only 57% birth registration of children under the age of five. The motion was, however, amended to include birth registration. I also note that the federal government needs to know not only how many health centres are needed in the country, but the population growth across the country to correctly estimate the medications to be imported and retrieved. Concerned about how a country, without credible statistics, can progress as registration of birth is the most basic requirement in planning for children, worried that when a country falls so followed through with established pattern, the young ones are exposed to dangers and the public health and economic planning teams cannot cope. Cognizant that knowing the age distribution of the country's population makes it easier to plan knowing how many will be of school age in what year, providing adequate classrooms.