Nigeria’s Population is Now Officially 206 Million - NPC
Category: Nigeria News
The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Kwarra, on
Tuesday disclosed that the country’s population figure is now officially 206
million.
Kwarra, said this while briefing reporters in Abuja on the commencement of the next Enumeration Area Demarcation.
His words: “In the absence of actual census, we formally do projections and we have all along been doing our projections and we estimate that as of 2020, the estimated population of Nigeria 206 million”.
Asked when the next population census will take place, He said President Muhammadu Buhari had the sole right to announce the next census.
If not more than, its all assumption not until proper census is conducted next year for us to know the actual statistics of our population.
ReplyDeleteWho count am?
ReplyDelete���������� have we done another Census aside the one we did in 2006? If NO, where were they gotten that figure.
ReplyDelete