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How Past Nigeria Census Were Politicised – Masari

How Past Nigeria Census Were Politicised – Masari

October 14, 2022 6:43 am

Kastina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari has asserted that previous censuses conducted in Nigeria have been wrongly politicised and that should not be allowed to repeat itself. 

Speaking while declaring open the state stakeholders’ summit ahead of the 2023 population and housing census, Masari reaffirmed that all the censuses conducted from 1963 to date including during the military region were conducted devoid of politics of tribal, religion, and regional dimensions.

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Stressing further that most of the figures assembled in the past were falsified by leaders, consequently affecting the national planning …

2023 Census Some Nigerians Refusing To Be Counted – NPC

NPC Officials Inspect Materials Ahead Of 2023 Census

October 13, 2022 7:54 pm

In lieu of the upcoming census, the stakeholders of the National Population Commission (NPC), have on Thursday paid a visit to the Nigeria factory of an indigenous technology firm, RLG Adulawo, in Ilesa, Osun state as part of their fresh efforts to fully ensure and confirm that next year’s census is conducted, in compliance with the presidential directive on local content, especially in the area of technology.

The team  had also made sure that theu toured the various sections of the RLG Adulawo Technology City, Ilesa factory, including some of the Assembly lines, testing centres and workshops sections, where ICT …

NPC Conducts Successful Trial Census In Ogun - Report

NPC Conducts Successful Trial Census In Ogun – Report

July 27, 2022 2:08 pm

In lieu of the already announced, April 2023 headcount, the National Population Commission (NPC) has finally conducted a trial census in Imeko Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The exercise, which was started in July 20, will be coming to an end on Saturday.

 

The Executive Chairman of NPC, Nasir Isa Kwarra, who  had also monitored the exercise had reiterated that Imeko Afon was chosen as the pilot area for the trial census in the South-West geopolitical zone of the country.

Kwarra, who was satisfied with the conduct of the exercise, said the challenges recorded would serve as …

NPC Conducts Successful Trial Census In Ogun - Report

2023 Census: NPC Dissociates Self From Fake Recruitment Portal

July 18, 2022 7:19 pm

While reacting to the news of some fake agents and websites parading themselves as the agency, the National Population Commission, NPC, has made an open discloure that it is working to uncover those behind the fake ‘NPC’ recruitment of 2021/2022 portal which is being circulated while inviting Nigerians to apply for employment for the Trial Census and 2023 Population and Housing Census in the country.

In a statement which had been signed by the commission’s Director Public Affairs, Isiaka Yahaya, on Thursday, said the information is totally false and misleading and treated as a scam by fraudsters to swindle …

NPC Launches The Numbering Listing For Trial Census

NPC Launches The Numbering Listing For Trial Census

July 13, 2022 4:59 pm

The National Population Commission (NPC) in lieu with its earlier announcement of a trial census session has begun housePChold listing and building numbering in the Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State.

Daura has been listed among the six LGAs nationwide which would be covered 100 percent during the trial census, in preparation for the 2023 population and housing census.

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Alhaji Bala Almu-Banye, the NPC’s Federal Commissioner in charge of Katsina State, said the exercise was in line with the approval of the Federal Government for the …

Gunmen Abduct Taraba Village Head, Three Others, Kill Four

NPC Commissioner Kigbu Killed By Gunmen, Children Kidnapped

May 29, 2022 11:50 am

There was mild pandemonium on Sunday when some unidentified gunmen had attacked and killed Mr. Zakari Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner of National Population Commission (NPC) at his residence in Azuba community near Lafia, Nasarawa State capital.

ACP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nasarawa State Command, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia.

According to Nansel, the gunmen stormed the victim’s residence at about 12:30 a.m. and shot at him before abducting two of his children- a boy and a girl.’

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Gunmen Abduct Taraba Village Head, Three Others, Kill Four

Panic As Robbers Break Into NPC Office To Steal Certificates

May 23, 2022 1:55 pm

There was mild pandemonium today as the National Population Commission (NPC) Badagry office which is located at Town Hall near Topo Garage, in Lagos State was besieged by a group of armed robbers who turned the place over in search of some birth cerificates.

A staff member of the commission, Mrs Funmilayo Bojrenu told the Newsmen Badagry that vital documents belonging to NPC were stolen.

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Narrating the incident, Mrs Bojrenu said they left the office on Friday around 4:30 pm, with all the doors locked and all documents …

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