The National Population Commission (NPC) has concluded plans to conduct the 2023 census in May, this year. Nigeria has not conducted a census in almost 17
This was the most scientific and most acceptable until 2006 population and Housing census. Several stages were involved in the project. For the first time, the use of GPS and Satellite Imagery to carve out Geo-referenced EAs was adopted. Also machine readable forms were used to record information from respondents.
Although, this newspaper had earlier taken a position that the 2023 population census be postponed to allow enough time for proper planning, we pledge our support to an accurate population that will enhance effective planning and budgeting for national development. We call on the NPC to eschew those factors such as ethnicity and religion in the conduct of the 2023 census.
Another example is the belief among some Northern communities that do not allow their women to be counted. The reason may be religious or cultural, but it exists. And it is probably why the northern census figure is always contested by other ethnic groups. It is also hoped that the NPC will do better this time, to avoid some of the errors of the 2006 population census, where the demography was said to have been deliberately falsified thus the population was exaggerated in the published results. Apart from the case of deliberate falsification, the authorities were also corrupt.
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