ABUJA, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Nigeria will start its first national census in 17 years at the end of March, as authorities in Africa's most populous country seek updated data on the exact population and ...

A young Nigerian woman sparked an online debate after questioning the government on why the country has not conducted a ...

President Bola Tinubu has affirmed his commitment to supporting the National Population Commission (NPC) in carrying out a credible population and housing census. This commitment is grounded in the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s government is holding the first census in 15 years of the world’s most populous African nation – an exercise so likely to fan religious, tribal and regional rivalries some ...

The last census conducted in 2006 saw the population at just over 140 million. Given the national census is meant to be conducted every 10 years as per the UN, Nigeria’s current population remains a ...

Demographic data are important for national development. They are useful in sectoral planning and should influence the direction of government priorities. A youthful population like Nigeria requires ...

Efforts at producing reliable statistics for national planning have failed because the periodic headcounts have always hit the rocks. Group Political Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU writes on the politics of ...

“We must ascertain who we are, how many we are, and how to manage our data. Without an accurate census, we can’t successfully plan for employment, agriculture, and food sovereignty. So many problems ...

Nigeria will exclude religion and ethnicity from the questionnaire for a long-overdue census in Africa’s most populous country in November, the organizer said on Monday, prompting boycott threats from ...

As Nigeria’s National Population Commission prepares for a national census scheduled for May 2022 – the first since 2006 – The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked demographer and social ...