PanNigerianNews 
By Quadri Alabi
The National Population Commission (NPC) has reached final the final stage of preparation to deliver to the country’s first fully digital population and housing census.
In a statement made available by the NPC Director of Public Affairs, Isiaka Yahaya, the commission disclosed plans ahead of forthcoming exercise.
Yahaya said, “The commission is in the final stage of preparation to deliver to the country’s first fully digital population and housing census that will be credible and acceptable to all.
“Nigeria’s 2023 Census will be fully digital and will be conducted in accordance with the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for the 2020 Programme on Population and Housing Censuses.
“The Census methodology makes manipulation of census figures difficult while ensuring that everyone resident in the country at the time of the enumeration is counted.”
However, the commission also urged politicians not to politicise the forthcoming census.
“We also want to seize this opportunity to call on the political class to have attitudinal change and not politicise the 2023 population and housing census, but rather to see census data for its fundamental purpose as a tool for development planning,” he added.
