Population and Housing Census earlier scheduled to be held across Nigeria for March 29, has been shifted to May this year.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who dropped the hint yesterday in Abuja, said that the decision to reschedule the census was as a result of the rescheduled governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections from March 11 to 18.
He said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N2.8 billion for the National Population Commission (NPC), to procure some software to be used for the conduct of the census.
“There was a memo presented by the National Population Commission, seeking for some software to allow them conduct the census in May this year.
”I believe because of the rescheduling of the elections, they cannot commence the census as scheduled.
“They sought council’s approval for a contract to procure software for the census at the sum of N2.8 billion.”
