Is Nigeria really ready for hitch-free population census?
Deployment of digital technology to the census process is expected to increase data accuracy and authenticity with little or no chance of manipulation and undue inflation of figures.
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Deployment of digital technology to the census process is expected to increase data accuracy and authenticity with little or no chance of manipulation and undue inflation of figures.
When we speak of Nigeria as comprising of Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and other ethnic groups and believe the politico-economic power struggle is really between these 3 named groups alone, do we not unconsciously refer to others as dots on a piece of paper?
Nigeria is now the sixth-highest terrorism-prone nation in the world, according to the Global Terrorism Index. This has grown over the past 10 years.
With the spate of dilapidated and uncompleted classrooms in public schools littered across the country, the government can spend N389 billion to build two blocks of three classrooms at the average rate of N50 million each for more than 19,000 public schools in the country.
Nigeria is conducting a census in May 2022 and the Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa Kwarra has said it will be the country’s first ever digital census.
Following the disclosure by the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC) that Nigeria will conduct her national census this year, Dataphyte predicts that, all things being equal with figures from the last census and growth estimations, the country’s population will be 234.33 million people or higher.
Details of the approved 2022 budget have shown that the country will spend the sum of N177.33 billion on Population and Housing Census in 2022.