The pilot census will be conducted in June this year after the political parties had completed their primary elections to produce candidates for 2023 general elections.
The Chairman of National Population Commission (NPC), Alhaji Nasir Isa Kwarra, disclosed this on Thursday after the Council of State meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
This is the fourth time the President will chair the meeting. It was held in the past on October 21, 2015; September 7, 2016 and August 2020.
The Council of State is an organ of the Federal Government saddled with the responsibility of advising the executive on policy matters.
The NPC chairman said the planned
Census is a very important exercise for the nation..
Isa-Kwarra said: “It is very crucial because I have highlighted that the Census is a very important exercise for the nation. Because through census we generate the data that we use for policy making, for planning, for development, by the three tiers of government, and the private sector, they all need this.
If you are a private sector, you’re producing something, certainly, you need to know the population of an area if you want to create a market there. So, census data is very crucial, very important. Because, the data we’ve been using are just projections, estimation. And are sort of obsolete, we need the actual census data to use for our planning.”
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