By Ayodele Oni
The Federal Executive Council, (FEC) has approved the postponement of 2023 Population and Housing Census earlier scheduled for March 29 to May 2023.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the disclosure at the end of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Minister, while briefing State House Correspondents, revealed that the decision was necessitated by the rescheduling of the governorship election to March 18.
According to him, the Council approved the sum of N2.8 billion for the commission to procure software to be used for the conduct of the census.
“There was a memo presented by the National Population Commission, seeking for some software to allow them conduct the census in May this year.
“I believe because of the rescheduling of the elections, they cannot commence the census as scheduled.
“They sought Council’s approval for a contract to procure software for the census at the sum of N2.8 billion.”
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