For what? So you can make some stüpid policy to favor some people, The majority solely by virtue of their religion or ethnicity? If all sections of the country isn't treated fairly, if we only aim for political posts so we can favor our religion or ethnicity then we will never move forward.

Watching in 7D

Southern Nigeria should wise up during this census, especially now that we have the so called "libyan, Senegalese" herdsmen inside Nigeria....

greatgod2012:
Is this necessary



There is already religious and tribal war on ground and now the FG want to pour more fuel on the war

Please explain how

sarrki:



That's true

It will settle a lot of internal wrangling among Nigerians

Those manipulating the census to prove they are bigger will still surface again. You know them. But this time technology will expose them.

Religion is not necessary, ethnicity is

This one wey Buhari no like us so you sure say our population no go reduce to 1 million? Abeg, they should wait with the count till after Buhari has left office.

smogup:
the north will always frustrate any thought of a credible census with their backward mentality.

Mr Forward Mentality,who you help?

basilo102:
Festus Odimegwu was sacked because of this, this new guy should be careful, I prefer state of origin than ethnicity and religion. Since state of origin is constitutional in nigeria it should be captured on the census and Federal allocation should be based on it

Nope...ethnicity is more definite than state of origin. Till now all we've seen are bogus claims from all quarters of Nigeria on how many millions they're... This would put to rest all such claims

Idrismusty97:
For what? So you can make some stüpid policy to favor some people, The majority solely by virtue of their religion or ethnicity? If all sections of the country isn't treated fairly, if we only aim for political posts so we can favor our religion or ethnicity then we will never move forward.

The only sensible point against the motion..Not all these children of discord screaming tribal war,minority group as if they care..

Idrismusty97:
For what? So you can make some stüpid policy to favor some people, The majority solely by virtue of their religion or ethnicity? If all sections of the country isn't treated fairly, if we only aim for political posts so we can favor our religion or ethnicity then we will never move forward.

See...they might remove religion but ethnicity MUST be there

sarrki:



It will go a long way by setting the record straight

when the result says there are more people in the north or more $muslims than christians, another round of wailing and gnashing of teeth will begin. Especially from those flat headed jews

You willl start hearing, they counted cows in the north to make up the numbers.
Buhari gave them the numbers.




For me, population census is stupid. There should be a way of registering all nigerians in a one collective data base so to avoid contoversy and age falsification. And identity a nigerian must have just to use anything like a social security number.

do we still really need census when we have national identity management commission, that can give the actual figure of the population at any given time, think the government sud really finance d commission and not kill it.

This is soo unimportant. Old men with old mentality.
this is a very divisive venture.

Don't tell me that previous censuses haven't been done based on religion, tribe and ethnicity... Like seriously? So we've been doing guess work all along? Smh!

9jakohai:
Even though I know this is a good decision, and is the right decision, the government better not implement it.

Questions about religion and ethnicity have always been very explosive in the Nigerian setup. Especially when it comes to the sharing of the non-existent national cake.

We should not bother. France does not bother with racial classifications in its own census too.

France is a nation with one official language and predominantly Christians but Nigeria is made up of different nations that doesn't share many things in common so you can't compare France and Nigeria. Religion and ethnicity should be incorporated into the Nigerian census system because it will lay many things to rest and also be a yardstick to determine if truly the country should split or remain as one!

sarrki:



That's true

It will settle a lot of internal wrangling among Nigerians

eventhough ur people population supersede that of the south,have u ask yourself the contribution your people have generated for Nigeria. Parasitic north.using population to usurp my peoples wealth

TonyeBarcanista:
Religion is not necessary, ethnicity is

Both cause division. All that is necessary is for the FG to ask your state of resident.

The sooner we get rid of ethnicity and religion, the better we cure the plague of nepotism.

How exactly has religion and ethnicity beennyour problem sir? Do we have mire religions and ethnic groups than China?

Your problem is corruption, not religion or ethnicity.

Grundig:
Shouldn't we be doing away with religion and ethnicity in this country? These people need to asking different kind of questions such as, place of birth and place of abode.

Ethnicity and religion have been the bane of our problem

For me, population census is stupid. There should be a way of registering all nigerians in a one collective data base so to avoid controversy and age falsification

Logical!

I think all data should be collected... ethnicity, religion, history of crime and even status of disability... it is shameful that nigeria does not know it's disability statistics or have a record of all convicted felons.. and when I say disability, wearing glasses is a disability, needing hearing aid is a disability.. its not just people that can't walk that are disabled. This statistics will help in health planning.. instead useless stat like religion and ethnicity are on the front burner.. pls how will that improve the health and security of Nigerians.. until we start to put first things first.. we are not yet serious as a nation.

cheruv:

Nope...ethnicity is more definite than state of origin. Till now all we've seen are bogus claims from all quarters of Nigeria on how many millions they're... This would put to rest all such claims

the problem is trust. Census figures will be heavily falsified.

sarrki:



It will go a long way by setting the record straight

Which and what record? Hope you don't mean the record of tribal and religious sentiment?

Earth2Metahuman:

For me, population census is stupid. There should be a way of registering all nigerians in a one collective data base so to avoid contoversy and age falsification. And identity a nigerian must have just to use anything like a social security number.

exactly. at a time when we need a sense of nationalism more than ever, Govt plans to do an religion/ethnicity census.

The question will be what the information will be used for and then the falsification will begin.

As a last resort approach, I even pray that future generations are only able to speak english and can only trace their roots to their state of birth/location rather than parents origin in order to solve this tribalism in Nigeria.

vingeophysicist:
eventhough ur people population supersede that of the south,have u ask yourself the contribution your people have generated for Nigeria. Parasitic north.using population to usurp my peoples wealth

Pls what have ur people contributed?
Note; don't mention oil cos u don't cultivate it. It is a natural deposit belonging to Nigeria, not any man's handwork.
By the time u mention what u have contributed, we can talk about the parasites and hosts, but if u can't then stfu.

kollynxofodile:
What the heck is Census if som1 can manufacture numbers and dish it out to the populace
Just to have an advantage.

I say, instead of investing billions of Naira on CENSUS

LET'S use that money to provide a DIGITAL ID CARD for every CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY.

it will solve
INSECURITY

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATIONS

AGE CHEAT

AND AUTOMATICALLY ASCERTAIN OUR TRUE POPULATION.

But they won't, cause Qauta system has been there means of survival

That is why you won't get your NIMC CARD cos they won't let it

Exactly my thought. Our true population will authormatically be computed once this is done.

It will be easier and cheaper to determine our population with digital ID registration as compared to head counts where figures are often manipulated.

Besides with this every citizen can have a security number tied to his/her BVN to curb security challenges.

before the census I expected the government of this county should know they should build proper borders fence across all link entries to the country with well trained border police with data garget not this kind of porous borders in existence.

Yoruba moslems wil be the least in this category...

The inclusion of Ethnicity and Religion in our national census is a total error. These are factors that are responsible for our division as a nation, and they have proved very handy in the hands of selfish politicians during electioneering. We should start by first of all asking ourselves the essence of a national census. The major reason national census is conducted anywhere in the world is to "plan development." Factors that are necessary are: age, number of men and women, number of adults, children, old folks, working adults, dependents, numbers of people in a household etc. These are factors necessary for proper economic planning. Ethnicity and religion are completely unnecessary.

I know for sure the that this is a bad news buhari and his zombies.