The Federal Government of Nigeria has postponed the Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled for 3-7 May 2023.
The exercise would now be conducted by the incoming administration to be headed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Information Minister disclosed this in a statement Saturday.
He said that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the approval after meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council and the Chairman of the National Population Commission and his team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday.
He added that the exercise would now take place on a new date to be determined by the incoming administration.
Part of the statement had it that- “In arriving at the decision to postpone the census, the meeting reiterated the critical need for the conduct of a Population and Housing Census, 17 years after the last census, to collect up-to-date data that will drive the developmental goals of the country and improve the living standard of the Nigerian people.”