ajl:


Did you say Nigeria is too big? Several states in the US or Canada are bigger than Nigeria. Once I travelled by road for 8 hours within Texas.

edunwablog:
Contrary to speculations by most international organisations that Nigeria’s population is 200 million, the National Population Commission (NPC) has said the country’s population is 198 million.

NPC Director General, Dr. Ghaji Ismaila Bello, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, to mark the 2019 World Population Day entitled: ‘25 years of ICPD: Accelerating the Promise, ‘ maintained that the country needs another census to ascertain the country’s actual population.

He said: “As at today, we are about 198 million. Three months ago, UNFPA brought out a figure of 201 million and we were asked to comment on that. For us, the difference between the UNFDP figure and ours is a function of assumptions. In the absence of accurate census, you have to use model and projection in order to arrive at a figure that you are projecting. There is no major fundamental difference per se between 201 and 198 million. Granted that 3 million can be the size of most countries, but when you are talking of very huge figure the margin of zero is small.

“It is imperative that Nigeria should undertake another census in the light of the recommendation of the UN for census to be taken every ten years and bearing in mind that the last census was undertaken in 2006 and we ought to have taken another census in 2016.

But, NPC’s acting National Chairman, Yusuf Anka, noted that the country still lags behind in meeting the ‘Cairo Plan’s, which gives women greater control over their lives, promote economic equality and opportunity, and stressed that the plan should be implemented.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/07/therere-198m-nigerians-npc.html

Centcanada:
Mumu body! 198 and 200 what's the diffence?

edunwablog:
Contrary to speculations by most international organisations that Nigeria’s population is 200 million, the National Population Commission (NPC) has said the country’s population is 198 million.

NPC Director General, Dr. Ghaji Ismaila Bello, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, to mark the 2019 World Population Day entitled: ‘25 years of ICPD: Accelerating the Promise, ‘ maintained that the country needs another census to ascertain the country’s actual population.

He said: “As at today, we are about 198 million. Three months ago, UNFPA brought out a figure of 201 million and we were asked to comment on that. For us, the difference between the UNFDP figure and ours is a function of assumptions. In the absence of accurate census, you have to use model and projection in order to arrive at a figure that you are projecting. There is no major fundamental difference per se between 201 and 198 million. Granted that 3 million can be the size of most countries, but when you are talking of very huge figure the margin of zero is small.

“It is imperative that Nigeria should undertake another census in the light of the recommendation of the UN for census to be taken every ten years and bearing in mind that the last census was undertaken in 2006 and we ought to have taken another census in 2016.

But, NPC’s acting National Chairman, Yusuf Anka, noted that the country still lags behind in meeting the ‘Cairo Plan’s, which gives women greater control over their lives, promote economic equality and opportunity, and stressed that the plan should be implemented.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/07/therere-198m-nigerians-npc.html

SoNature:
Yeye country that doesn't know its population

Nigeria is like a father who doesn’t know the number of children it has

theenchanter:
Lol, when was census conducted? The last census was catastrophic with governors coming up with pop figures.

A country of 198m with 30m voters when egypt with half our population had 27m voters...

Who's fooling who?

Lucid1:


Uncle where did you get these lies from? Stop picking gists from beer parlors

diehard1:
How Nigeria conjures figures is mind blowing, the nearest country with almost same land mass is just around 99 million. Guess all these figures are just to support "giant of africa" slogan and other internal politics too.

I was in Nigeria during last census and was not even counted. Even the way the figure grows is something else. Who knows in three years time we will be quoting 250 million as our population.

Captaintimex:
We are 12 in my family. Dem no count any of us. My neighbors were not counted.... someone de dea de talk wetin no correct.

Lucid1:



Satellite imagery can't give you an 'accurate' figure.

For what reason was he sacked, details not headlines please

ebuk4real:


Hope you have google? It won't cost you anything to read it up Sir/Ma. Thanks

theenchanter:
Lol, when was census conducted? The last census was catastrophic with governors coming up with pop figures.

A country of 198m with 30m voters when egypt with half our population had 27m voters...

Who's fooling who?