Tag: 2022 Census

2023 National Census: “Allow headcount to hold in South-East” – NPC appeals to IPOB

Aminu Imam

The National Population Commission (NPC) Abia State office has passionately appealed to the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to sheath its sword and allow the 2023 census to be conducted uninterrupted in the South-East geo-political zone. The Federal Commissioner of NPC in charge of Abia State, Chief Johnny Nwabuisi, who made the appeal in Umuahia yesterday, during a stakeholders’ summit for the 2023 National Census, argued that the earlier stance by the separatist body that no census should be held in the South-East and some parts of South-South will negate…

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2023 Population and Housing Census will assist FG tackle insecurity, poverty – Buhari

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the planned 2023 Population and Housing Census would help the Federal Government’s fight against poverty and insecurity. A statement from the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the president made the remarks in his keynote address at the National Stakeholders’ Summit on the 2023 Census, which was held at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. The Nigerian leader lamented the dearth of up-to-date information since the 2006 census which, he argued, has impeded the country’s national planning. Buhari, who acknowledged that Nigeria…

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Council of State approves April 2023 for National Census

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has stated that it plans to hold a national census by April 2023, after the general election. This was disclosed yesterday by the Director-General of the National Population Commission, (NPC), Nasir Isa-Kwarra, to State House Correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. Isa-Kwarra also said the NPC would be conducting a pilot census from June 2022, after political parties must have concluded their pre-general elections activities. The NPC boss, who recalled the last census exercise held in 2006, disclosed that…

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Insecurity: ‘Postpone 2022 National Census’, Northerners appeal to Buhari

Aminu Imam

Critical stakeholders of the North, led by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), which met under “Northern Leaders of Thought” in Kaduna, have strongly advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to postpone the planned 2022 National Census, considering a large number of displaced Nigerians and the proximity of the census to the 2023 elections. According to a communiqué issued by the Chairman, Communiqué Drafting Committee, Prof. D. D. D. Sheni, after a one-day meeting, with a theme: “Rebuilding the North”, the stakeholders urged key northern groups to engage others from the…

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2022 Census: Group back Senator Adeyemi, others’ concern over cost

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…Charges FG to fix insecurity, others first Following the N400 bn budget proposal by the National Population Commission, (NPC), over the proposed 2022 National Census, and the objection raised by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Sen. Smart Adeyemi, among other concerned Nigerians, the Human & Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA) Resource Centre, has joined forces with the Senator to raise eyebrows not only on the jumbo budget but on the rationale for conducting the census at this precarious time in the history of Nigeria. In a telephone interview, the Chairman…

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