Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu,has lamented the absence of accurate population data to plan Nigeria. The deputy speaker charged the newly inaugurated commissioners on the Board of the National Population Commission (NPC) to ensure that the next census will give the actual statistics of Nigeria’s population.
He said that knowing the figure was essential to economic planning and the spread of infrastructure across the country. Kalu gave the charge at the inaugural dinner of the federal commissioner representing Abia State at the NPC Board, Chief Emmanuel Trump Eke, over the weekend in Abuja.
Eke was amongst the 17 appointees inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The deputy speaker said that it was not right to continue to hazard a guess about the country’s population each time the issue arises, stressing that it was…
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