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2023 Census: NPC Recruitment Portal Faces Attack From Hackers

July 13, 2022 3:21 am

The National Population Commission (NPC) has revealed that it successfully foiled an attempt to hack its recruitment portal for the 2023 census.

NPC Commissioner for Anambra, Chidi Ezeoke, made this known while speaking at a news conference in Awka on Tuesday.

Ezeoke revealed that the NPC had established a digitalised online geo-fenced portal to recruit personnel from selected communities across Nigeria.

The official also went on to assure Nigerians that the commission was committed to correcting anomalies to ensure an accurate and reliable census next year.

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“If hackers …

World Population To Hit Over 8bn By 2030, UN Confirms

July 12, 2022 4:28 am

According to the most recent UN projections, the population of the world could increase to over 8.5 billion people in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and then peak at about 10.4 billion during the 2080s. Up until 2100, the population is anticipated to stay at that level.

The annual study, which was released on Monday in conjunction with World Population Day, also observed that, having decreased to less than 1% in 2020, the pace of population growth worldwide is at its lowest level since 1950.

Fertility, the report declares, has fallen markedly in recent decades for many countries: today, two-thirds …

1M Nigerians Will Be Recruited For 2023 Census – NPC

July 5, 2022 5:34 am

The National Population Commission (NPC) has revealed that the federal government of Nigeria has concluded plans to employ no fewer than one million Nigerians for the conduct of the 2023 National Census.

The commissioner representing Ekiti at the NPC, Mr Deji Ajayi, made this revelation while speaking in Ado Ekiti, on Monday at a press conference heralding the trial census to be conducted in Ekiti in preparatory to the next year’s main census exercise.

He assured Nigerians that reliable technological innovation had been advanced by the NPC for the conduct of the exercise to prevent politicians and interested elites from …

China’s Population Grows To 1.41B, New Census Data Reveals

May 12, 2021 7:33 am

China’s population has grown more than five percent over the past decade to pass 1.4 billion people, Beijing yesterday, as it unveiled its census results.

China’s birthrate has been in steady decline since 2017, despite Beijing’s relaxation of the decades-old “one-child policy” in order to try and avert a looming demographic crisis.

Ning Jizhe, an official from the National Bureau of Statistics, said ‘the data showed that the population of China maintained a mild growth momentum in the past decade.’

The increase of 5.4 percent over the last 10 years comes amid fears that an ageing population and a slowing …