Nigeria’s population has hit an estimated 198 million people, the National Population Commission (NPC) has announced. The development was made public by the acting national chairman of the commission, Yusuf Anka, at a media briefing on the 2019 World Population Day in Abuja on Tuesday, July 9, Vanguard reports who said the NPC had arrived at the figure through application of appropriate census tools.


Speaking on on Population Day, with the theme, “25 Years of ICPD: Accelerating the Promise,” Anka urged stakeholders and the media to urgently set an agenda for the conduct of population census in the country. He said: “Fundamentally, it is even more imperative now that Nigeria should undertake the next census in the light of the recommendations of the United Nations, that census should be undertaken every 10 years. “The current population of Nigeria is about 198 million people.

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Akuko... Where did dey get d records? A whole country dat doesn't even have a database of its ppl or records of births and deaths daily