President Tinubu Unveils National Census Committee

President Bola Tinubu

 

President Bola Tinubu has set up a committee for the forthcoming national population and housing census.

The committee is expected to submit an interim report within three weeks.

This was contained in a statement by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga on Wednesday.

The President, represented by his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the event 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.

He also 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.

Speaking on the critical financing factor in the exercise, he urged the committee members to look at domestic and even international resources.

“Work with all relevant agencies, including the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. This ministry has to take charge of this because you cannot budget if you do not know how many of us there are.

“We expect you will touch on the technology area because the census must be technology-driven. Things have changed since the last time that we conducted this exercise. The enumeration has to be technology-driven with biometrics and digitalisation,” he said.