President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja said that the data to be generated from the 2023 census would be used to tackle the security challenges bedeviling the country as it will give an overview of the population.

The President also said that Nigeria urgently needs a new data set to drive the implementation of the recently launched revised National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development and other government policies.

Speaking at the national stakeholders’summit on the 2023 Population and Housing Census held at the Old Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja, President Buhari stated that the deployment of digital technology in the 2023 National Population and Housing Census will ensure effectiveness and more accuracy in the figures.

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He said Nigeria could rank third largest in the world by 2050, after China and India, adding that   a “reliable, credible, acceptable and successful census’’ will help government in planning purpose
for development, especially in bolstering the social security programme that targets more vulnerable Nigerians.

President Buhari in a statement is- sued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina was
quoted as saying, “The country’s inability to conduct a population census in the last 16 years has created an information vacuum as the data from the last census conducted in 2006 has been rendered out of date for planning purposes. It has therefore become imperative for the nation to conduct another national census to produce a new set of demographic and socio-economic data that will provide the basis for national