LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has postponed a census due to take place next week and a new date will be set by the incoming government, the information ministry said on Saturday as it announced the latest delay to the country’s first census in 17 years. The census had been scheduled for May 3-7, but the…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A human rights lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has sued the National Population Commission (NPC) and two others at the Federal High Court, Lagos, challenging its intention to conduct national population census on April 2023 amid insecurity, just a month after the general elections in February and March. The two other respondents joined…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its population, estimated at more than 200 million people and the largest in Africa, the head of the national population agency said on Thursday. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria because rival ethnic and religious groups have…