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- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated an eight-member connected the forthcoming nationalist colonisation and lodging census
- On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Tinubu said the committee volition taxable an interim study wrong 3 weeks
- President Tinubu stressed the pivotal relation of a technology-driven process successful ensuring credible and verifiable results
Legit.ng journalist, Adekunle Dada, has implicit 8 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary issues
FCT, Abuja - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu connected Wednesday, April 16, 2025, inaugurated a high-level committee connected the forthcoming nationalist colonisation and lodging census.
The eight-member committee besides includes the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
Source: UGC
Others see the Principal Private Secretary to the President and the Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Administration and Operations (Office of the Chief of Staff).
President Tinubu gave the committee a three-week deadline to taxable an interim report.
The President said the census is important for nationalist development, close planning, and effectual decision-making successful healthcare, education, security, and economical planning.
This was contained successful a connection issued by Bayo Onanuga Special Adviser to President Tunubu connected Information & Strategy connected Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
According to the connection shared by Special Adviser, Media & Public Communication/Spokesperson to the President, Sunday Dare, @SundayDareSD, Nigeria's past census was successful 2006, astir 2 decades ago, with a colonisation of 140,431,790.
The Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, represented President Tinubu astatine the lawsuit held astatine the State House successful Abuja.
President Tinubu said a technology-driven process volition guarantee credible and verifiable results.
Tinubu emphasizes the request for collaboration among each applicable agencies and stakeholders.
The President enjoined the members to look astatine home and adjacent planetary resources regarding the financing origin successful the exercise.
"Work with each applicable agencies, including the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. This ministry has to instrumentality complaint of this due to the fact that you cannot fund if you bash not cognize however galore we are."We expect you volition interaction connected the exertion country due to the fact that the census indispensable beryllium technology-driven. Things person changed since the past clip that we conducted this exercise. The enumeration has to beryllium technology-driven with biometrics and digitalisation."Nigeria moves person to a caller census.
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that President Tinubu met with the National Population Commission (NPC) Chairman, Nasir Isa Kwarra.
Tinubu said helium would acceptable up a committee connected the census fund that would align the government's contiguous fiscal realities.
Legit.ng reports that the Federal Republic of Nigeria had its past census implicit 18 years agone successful November 2006.
Tinubu proposes usage of NYSC members for census
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that President Tinubu rejected a N942bn connection for the behaviour of the nationalist lodging and population census.
Tinubu told the National Population Commission (NPC) to marque usage of corps members for the colonisation census to trim the cost.
Sources acquainted with the substance said Tinubu wants the census to happen, but the committee should transportation it retired for less.
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