NBS said 42 per cent of the health workers received bribes to speed up the procedure, and 15 per cent also took bribes to make the finalisation of the procedure possible.
He advised the government to include all public and private secondary schools in its programme against drug abuse.
Mr Tunji-Ojo said decongesting correctional facilities in the country demands urgent collaboration.
Mr Marwa said over 11,000 pending cases and 23,725 offenders were counselled and rehabilitated.
The presidential committee on Correctional Centres Reform and Decongestion was in Kano for an on-the-spot assessment.
