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The Federal Government has revealed plans to hold the national population census in April 2023.
Director General of Nigeria Population Commission, NPC, Nasir Isa-Kwarra, disclosed this at the end of the Council of State meeting Presided over by the President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday in Abuja.
Isa-Kwarra stated that the NPC would hold a pilot census in June after the political primaries, noting that the commission will deploy high-grade technology during the exercise.
He lamented that the current data in use by the country are obsolete, assuring that the census would provide more accurate data for national planning.
