The National Population Commission (NPC) says Nigeria’s population remains its greatest asset for national development. Bala Banye, NPC federal commissioner for Katsina, said this on Thursday at a two-day workshop on compendium of localities for the 2023 population and housing census. “With the huge resources spent on the enumeration area demarcation (EAD), we are happy that the NPC has acquired a lot of data sets that will be useful for national development,” Banye said. “I...

By Handel Patrick, (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The National Population Commission, NPC, says One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-Nine personnel have been selected to conduct a trial census for the 2023 population and housing census. The trial census will hold in the months of June and July 2022. The National Commissioner of the Commission representing Anambra State, Mr. Chidi Ezeoke disclosed this in an advocacy visit/ town hall meeting with stakeholders of Awka-Etiti and Nnobi...

A southwest group, the Yoruba Global Alliance, has described the proposed population census across the country as a misplaced priority, citing the prevailing challenges of insecurity in the country. The Federal Government had on Thursday in Abuja revealed plans to hold the national population census in April 2023. This is the first time such an exercise will be held in 17 years. The government had planned to conduct the exercise in 2021 but it was...

ABUJA — The Director-General, National Boundary Commission, (NBC) Mr. Adamu Adaji has said single borderlines between Katsina/Jigawa, Katsina/Kaduna and Katsina/Kano States have been established. NBC’s Director-General disclosed this on Tuesday in Katsina at a joint meeting of officials of Katsina, Zamfara and Kano over interstate boundary demarcation. Adaji said the meeting on the Katsina/Kano interstate boundary resulted in an agreed single line boundary between both states. According to him, the meeting on the Katsina/Zamfara boundary...