President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated a high-level committee on the forthcoming national population and housing census today, mandating the committee to submit an interim report within three weeks.

Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila who represented the President at the event which held at the State House in Abuja, said the census is crucial for national development, accurate planning, and effective decision-making in healthcare, education, security, and economic planning. President Tinubu stressed the pivotal role of a technology-driven process in ensuring credible and verifiable results and the need for collaboration among all relevant agencies and stakeholders, noting that Nigeria’s last census was in 2006, nearly two decades ago.

Our Correspondent, Raliat Adenekan reports that the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, who chairs the Presidential Committee on Population and Housing Census, assured the President that the committee will deliver its report within the three-week deadline, stating that the committee will recommend practical solutions, including strategies for mobilising domestic and international resources to fund the census.

The National Population Commission (NPC) Chairman, Nasir Isa Kwarra, who will also serve as the committee Secretary, assured Nigerians that the National Population Commission remains committed to ensuring a credible, technology-driven enumeration that will support effective national planning and development.

 The eight-member committee also includes the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the Principal Secretary to the President, and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Operations (Office of the Chief of Staff).

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