Information
emerging from the National Population Commission (NPC) has revealed
that Nigeria’s population will hit 170 million mark this year. The
commission made the disclosure in Abuja, on Thursday, at a press
conference on the commencement of fieldwork for the 2013 Nigeria
Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) in Nigeria.
The
chairman of the NPC, Festus Odimegwu, addressing the media, said
Nigeria population grew at 3.2 per cent per annum, stressing that by the
end of the year, the country population would have moved from the 160
million in 2006 to 170 million in 2013.
Represented
at the event by the chairman, NPC Technical Management Team and Vital
Registration, Dr Festus Uzor, Odimegwu said the effective management of
Nigeria population for sustainable development required collection,
processing and dissemination of demographic data, not only through
periodic census exercise but also through regular surveys and
registration of births, deaths and migration.
Therefore,
it was in this light that the NPC, in conjunction with other
development partners like the the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
and Department for International Development (DFID) decided to pool
resources amounting to N800 million to finance the NDHS project, which
he described as a nationally representative survey designed to provide
information on the demographic and health status of the population.
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