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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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Insecurity threatens Nigeria’s upcoming census
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.
Nigeria’s N869bn census budget can build 19,000 classrooms, 30,000 PHCs
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.
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2022 Population and Housing Census: Nigeria’s Population Figure to Equal or Exceed 234 Million
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.