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.
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