Census: Buhari to decide on date, says NPC boss
The Acting Chairman of the National Population Commission , Alh. Hassan Bashir on Thursday said the commission is pushing hard to get the consent of President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct the next population census.
Census, the NPS boss said will serve as a guide in identifying human elements that can be exploited for development process and formation of people responsive welfare Programme. “For the avoidance of doubt, the EAD exercise is not the enumeration of persons living in the country and its outcome will not in any way determine the population of any community, local government or state,” he said.
NPC is still maintaining that to conduct the proposed population census, over N220 billion will be required due to logistics. The EAD started on Thursday, March 21, according to Bashir and ends on April 13, 2019 across 23 states of the federation.
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