President Bola Tinubu will announce new dates for Nigeria’s conduct of the national population and housing census, the Chairman of the National Population Census (NPC), Nasir Isa Kwarra, has said.
The NPC boss disclosed this on Thursday after meeting with the president at the State House, and correspondents in an interview that any further delay in the conduct of the census will incur additional expenses for the country.
The census, which was earlier scheduled for May 3–7, 2023, by the administration of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was postponed to a date to be determined by the Tinubu administration.
After a meeting with the President on Thursday, Kwarra said he briefed him on the commission’s readiness for the census.
He said the President was fully apprised of the existing plans and processes for the exercise but noted that further delays in the conduct of the census would amount to additional costs for the government.
He, however, explained that the preparations for the exercise, which has already cost N100 billion, are a huge investment for the country, adding that subsequent exercises would be less expensive.
