The Nigeria Population Commission, NPC has said the enactment of an enabling law will help Nigeria abide by the United Nations’ ten-year timeline for the conduct of population census.
The Commission made this known at a roundtable dialogue on the 2023 Population and Housing Census put together by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS.
Nigeria is putting finishing touches to its planned conduct of a population and housing census in April, 2023.
The National Population Commission says it is on course with its preparations and is optimistic of a fruitful exercise.
The pre-test exercise allows for the testing of all parts of the program and instruments prior to the main census.
This is coming seventeen years after its first ever population census and contravenes the United Nations Declaration that countries carry out the exercise every ten years.
Between 2006 and now, the country’s dynamics have changed.
Insecurity, politics of federal character, geopolitics of resources, insufficient advocacy as well as ethnicity and religious consciousness are some of the challenges staring the exercise in the face.
The commission bemoaned the lack of a legislation directing Nigeria to undertake the exercise every ten years.
It insists funding is not a challenge since Nigeria and development partners are picking up the bills on a fifty fifty per cent ratio.
Housing and population, The Census Bureau, without a doubt, provides a database for population and workforce estimates. Expectations are that seven years from now, Nigeria will have surmounted the many problems that the exercise has presented in order to have reliable data to meet the requirements of its citizens.https://www.tvcnews.tv/2022/06/customs-kebbi-area-command-intercept-over-280-donkey-skin/
