BudgIT, a leading public data organization raising active citizens’ participation in nation-building and government-citizen communication for good governance and accountability, has urged the National Population Commission (NPC) to publish the breakdown of the N896 billion 2023 National Population Census budget. The civil advocacy group, in a statement issued by its Communication Associate, Nancy Odimegwu, on […]
The National Population Commission disclosed on Monday that the 2023 population census scheduled to be conducted before the end of the first quarter this year would cost the sum of N400 billion. The commission’s Head, NPC Public Affairs Department in Plateau State, Mr Jick Lawrence, gave this hint in a paper titled “Enumeration Area Demarcation […]
The House of Representatives on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to immediately suspend the proposed 2021 population and housing census planned to be conducted by the National Population Commission (NPC), due to rising insecurity challenge in the country. The lawmakers’ advice was sequel to the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance on the […]