Section 50, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

(1) Any Registration Officer shall, on application to himin writing by the parents, the surviving parent or the guardian of a child whose birth has been registered, on production to that Registration Officer of such evidence as appears to him to be satisfactory and on payment of the prescribed fee- (a) if the forename of the child has been registered, change or alter the forename in the entry in the register or add a forename or forenames to the entry; or (b) if the forename of the child has not been registered, register the forename of the child. (2) Where a forename is changed, altered or registered or one or more forenames are added under subsection (1), the existing entry shall be retained in the Register of Births, the change, alteration, registration or addition shall be deemed for all purposes to be and always to have been part of the original entry and the forename or forenames in the birth register shall not be further changed, altered or added to.