The National Population Commission (NPC) has officially fixed the date for the 2023 national population and housing census.
The census date was announced by the NPC chairman, Nasir Kwarra, after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday.
According to the NPC boss, the 2023 census date has been fixed to commence from March 29 till April 2, 2023.
Kwarra said that the NPC staff and selected ad-hoc staff will be enumerating people from March 29 to April 2.
He said: “This census is going to be different from past censuses.
“The theory and practice is essentially the same, but we’re using high-end technology to conduct this census and it’s such that nobody can tamper with any figure. Nobody will be counted more than once.
“We’re visiting households to do direct interface with the household, collect data and in the past, if you’re doing an operational manually, it’s very cumbersome, but this is being aided by technology and I believe it’s going to be transparent and very fast and it is going to be verifiable because we are able to provide data up to the local government, up to wards level. So it is something that you can always verify.”
Kwarra said that the ad-hoc staff being recruited by the commission will work in their various localities during the census.
The NPC chairman added that foreigners will also be counted when the exercise commences in March.
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I applied as a facilitator my status have changed from pending to approved for over 2 weeks but up till now, I haven’t received any message/ email from them after inputting my account details. Pls what could be the matter am from Cross River State Calabar.
You don’t have any problem. You’ll soon receive a message for the training.
Why for some of ours are still pending when the training was on going
I need assist from our leader I ddn’t received msg from Census about physical training I already conduct a virtual training I visit the place of physical training and they did not allow us to enter while is not our fault the problem is about communication gap I came back to our local government for other rank. It is possible to get other do to I miss that one as the agent said to me.
I need more explanation about tomorrow training we have already conducted online training but still waiting for approval and already posted the venue and we don’t know our stand
Don’t worry about approval at the moment, just visit your training centre.
My status is still pending, what shuold i do? Please help joy from nassarawa
We’ll give an update later today. Stay tuned.
Please any news on enumerators,my application is still pending
We’ll give an update later today. Stay tuned.
Greetings, please what is the latest updates about the list of supervisors?
We’ll give an update later today. Stay tuned.
For the facilitators training that is billed to commence on Monday 23 January, we have not received any email or text message to this effect. So some of us might not even know our fate. And for some of us our cities are far from the state capital. And might take up to 5hours to the state capital. So I personally think that we should be notified as early as possible for proper arrangements
Did you participate in the screening that held few weeks for facilitators?
If i check my NPC portal, it will not open, it will write BE BACK SOON, why?
Which website are you using to check it?
Good afternoon,my application is till pending,I don’t no why.
We’ll give an update later today. Stay tuned.
Please mine is still pending from Ogun state is there still hope for us?
We’ll give an update later today. Stay tuned.
Good news boss, God continues protecting u and your family from saidae and bad people. all ur needed
Good to hear
I have no received any text or mail, but my status shows approve and I submitted my banks details since last 3 weeks ago. Facilitator from Plateau state. Thank you
You’re good to go. No worries.
Greetings, please what is the latest updates about the list of supervisors?
We’ll give an update later today. Stay tuned.
When should we expect the shortlist for both enumerators and supervisors?
Thanks
Anytime soon, there’s no time frame.
Thanks in anticipation.