2023 Census To Gulp N500bn-FG

It will cost the federal government a whopping over N532 billion or more to conduct the 2023 National Housing and Population Census, the federal government has said.

The Chairman of the National Population Commission, NPC, Nasir Kwarra, made the disclosure on Wednesday, to a Senate committee the News Agency of Nigeria, NANS reports.

The NPC boss said  N532.7 billion would be needed to conduct the 2023 National Housing and Population Census expected to commence in April next year.

Kwarra told the Senate Committee on National Identity Card and National Population Commission, NPC, in Abuja while defending the commission budget on Wednesday, saying all is now set to conduct a transparent census for the country.

H said, “Based on the budget for the census, what we need to be able to complete the conduct of the census as well as the post enumeration survey and all other post census activities is a total of N532.7 billion.

”Aside from the N10 billion budget for 2023, the NPC earmarked the sum of N532.7 billion for conduct of 2023 census.

”NPC is ready to re- write the history of the census in Nigeria by making the 2023 one not only accurate, credible, and reliable but acceptable to all Nigerians,” he said.

The last time a census was conducted in the country was in 2006.