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The Federal Government has shifted the 2023 population and
housing census earlier scheduled for March 29, 2023.
Minister
of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Wednesday after the
weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President
Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The exercise is now rescheduled for May, 2023.
He also
disclosed that the Council approved the sum of N2.8 billion for the National
Population Commission (NPC) to procure some softwares to be used for the
conduct of the census.
“There
was a memo presented by the National Population Commission, seeking for some
softwares 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”, he said.
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