Recall that former President Muhammadu Buhari had postponed the conduct of the exercise earlier scheduled to hold from May 3 to May 7.
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The initial money budgeted for the exercise was N800 billion but was cut short after the postponement.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known on Saturday in a statement he signed
The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Security and Strategies, Setonji David made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos Friday.
Izonfuo is in Bayelsa and was kidnapped by gunmen on the Ogbakiri axis of the East-West Road in Rivers State.
The Population Commission had earlier announced that the nationwide census will hold from May 3 to 7, 2023.
AMAC Chairman, Christopher Maikalangu who is also the Chairman of the committee, urged the members to work for the success of the exercise at the grassroot level.
If one may also ask, when was the last time Nigeria held a census and how effective have previous exercises been?
The contract, worth over N85 billion, was recently awarded to Zinox after ratification by the Federal Executive Council.
The Chairman of the NPC, Nasir Kwarra, disclosed this when he spoke with State House Correspondents in Abuja on Friday
ID4D’s Project Coordinator, Musa Odole Solomon disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Chairman of the National population Commission, Alhaji Isa Kwarra at the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja.
The Chairman of the Commission disclosed this on Tuesday at a press briefing in Abuja
Professor Akande said the greatest opportunity to contribute to national leadership is for the youths to participate in politics and influence the leadership of the country to fast- track the nation’s national development.
“When are we going to raise population control to the level of a national discourse?” was the poser I posted on the social media. In the responses that followed, I saw anger. I saw frustrations. I saw sentiments. I saw despair. I saw desperation and I saw determination.
Oyetunji was speaking at the concluding meeting of the Revised National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development (NPP) in Abuja.
This was made known in a statement signed by Ibrahim Addra, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, on Monday.
The House of Representatives has urged the National Population Commission to come up with a feasible time table for the conduct of a national census no later than 2020.
Sylvanus Unogu, former Director of Population Management, National Population Commission, says manipulations in census figures in the past are responsible for the country’s inability to reap Demographic Dividends.
The Nigerian Communications Commission says it recently re-aligned the computation of the country’s teledensity with the latest population figure of 190 million, as stipulated by the National Population Commission.
Alhaji Hassan Bashir, Acting Chairman of the National Population Commission, has advised the Federal Government on the need to take a census of Nigerians.