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President Bola Tinubu has charged the National Population Commission (NPC) to be prudent and produce credible and reliable data for national development. The President also urged the Commission to take advantage of the delay in conducting the census in the past years to leverage on the current electronic and digital age. The President, who ex- pressed his unwavering support to the Commission, gave these charges yesterday at the Presidential Villa while receiving its management led by its Chairman, Nasir Isa Kwarra. While expressing concerns over the delay in conducting another enumeration in the country since the last exercise done in 2006, the President said: “It is disappointing that up until now we have not been able to conduct another enumeration of our people. 

According to him, the NPC requested the release of the allocated N31 billion capital al- locations, in the 2023 budget, for preparatory activities, while putting the total cost of the census, after a methodology review, at N546.72 billion. Kwarra also requested the President’s approval for an additional N225.2 billion to cover training and fieldwork allowances, retraining of trainers, and the conduct of a sec- ond-class Trial Census.