ABSTRACT 

The manual method of obtaining birth or death certificate is complex and impractical for increase in birth rate and death rate. The cost of obtaining a birth or death certificate, risk and stress of communicating with the National Population Commission (NPC) officials, loss of certificate are some of the possible problems of the manual process of obtaining birth or death certificate. Before a birth or death certificate can be issued by NPC, the birth or death must have been registered. Birth and Death registration became very important as a result of difficulties encountered while obtaining accurate population statistics essential in social services planning. It also makes sure that adequate resources and budgets are made available to meet the needs of the population at large. 

The performance of the web based birth and death certificate request application was evaluated in terms of speed, accessibility, cost and capacity. The result confirmed that the proposed web based birth and death certificate request application will be able to assist government officials in terms of having a easily and globally accessible system, speeding up the process of issuing birth or death certificates, it eliminates having certificate in paper form, it reduces stress of communicating with government officials and finally reduces the cost of obtaining certificates.

This study therefore aims to address the challenges faced by citizens in obtaining birth or death certificates from NPC by using a web based birth and death certificate request application. The implementation of the proposed system is achieved using MySql for the database,PHP for programming the interface and Bootstrap for the User Interface.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CERTIFICATION…II

DEDICATION…....III

ACKOWLEDGEMENTS…………………………………..IV

ABSTRACT……...VI

TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………….VII

LIST OF FIGURES...................X

LIST OF TABLES.....................XI

CHAPTER ONE1

INTRODUCTION1

1.1  BACKGROUND OF STUDY1

1.2 PROBLEM DEFINITION/STATEMENT5

1.3 JUSTIFICATION OF STUDY6

1.4 AIM AND OBJECTIVES6

1.5 OBJECTIVES6

1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY7

1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY8

1.7 CONSTRAINTS OF THE STUDY8

1.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY9

1.10 PROJECT LAYOUT9

CHAPTER TWO11

LITERATURE REVIEW11

2.1 BIRTH REGISTRATION11

2.2 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND LEGAL IDENTITY12

2.3 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND ACCESS TO SERVICES13

2.4 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND CHILD PROTECTION15

2.5 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT PLANNING17

2.6 BENEFITS OF BIRTH REGISTRATION18

2.7 LIMITATIONS AND CHALLENGES19

2.8 STRATEGIC APPROACH TO PROMOTING BIRTH REGISTRATION IN NIGERIA20

2.8.1 HISTORY OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE21

2.8.2 BIRTH CERTIFICATE23

2.8.3 WHO MAY REQUEST FOR A BIRTH CERTIFICATE23

2.9 DEATH REGISTRATION24

2.9.1 SITUATION OF DEATH REGISTRATION IN AFRICA26

2.9.2 Origins of death registration27

2.9.2.1 Death registration in the United States30

2.10 DEATH CERTIFICATE32

2.11 E-CERTIFICATE33

2.11.1 WHAT AN E-CERTIFICATE OFFERS33

2.12 RELATED WORKS34

2.13 CHAPTER SUMMARY36

CHAPTER THREE38

SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN38

3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING38

3.2 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM39

3.2 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS40

3.3 NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS42

3.4 USE CASE DIAGRAM43

3.5 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM46

3.5.1 CONTEXT DIAGRAM47

3.6 ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM48

3.7 ENTITY-RELATIONAL MODEL49

3.8 DATABASE DESIGN50

3.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY58

CHAPTER FOUR59

SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION AND DOCUMENTATION59

4.1 CHOICE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE USED59

4.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS59

4.2.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS59

4.2.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS60

4.3 MODULES EXPLANATION (DOCUMENTATION)60

4.4 USER’S MANUAL61

4.4.1 RUNNING THE SYSTEM61

4.5 IMPLEMENTATION MODEL63

4.5.1 COMPONENT DIAGRAM63

4.6 SCREEN SHOTS69

CHAPTER FIVE85

SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONN AND RECOMMENDATION85

5.1 SUMMARY85

5.2 CONCLUSION85

5.3 RECOMMENDATION86

 

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 3.1 Use Case Diagram of Proposed System44

Figure 3.2 Context Diagram for Proposed System46

Figure 3.3 E-R Diagram of Proposed System47

Figure 3.4 Entity-Relational Model of Proposed System48

Figure 4.1 Component diagram of Birth and Death Certificate Request...........74

Figure 4.2 Register Page.............79

Figure 4.3 Login Page.................80

Figure 4.4 Home Page................81

Figure 4.5 Applicant Page...........82

Figure 4.6 Birth Certificate Page83

Figure 4.7 Death Certificate Page......84

Figure 4.8 Admin Panel Page....85

Figure 4.9 Admin Edit Page.......86

Figure 4.10 Admin Login Page..87

Figure 4.1 1 Payment Page.........88

Figure 4.12 Pdf birth Certificate Page89

Figure 4.13Pdf Death Certificate Page......................90

Figure 4.14 View Applicant and Proof Page..............91

Figure 4.15 Email Page...............92

 

LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.1 : ADMINS TABLE49

Table 3.2 : APPLICANT  TABLE50

Table 3.3 : BIRTH52

Table 3.4 : DEATH55

Table 4.1 : DESCRIPTION OF ELEMENTS OF COMPONENT DIAGRAM..79

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