Nigeria’s population rises to 206 million- NPC
The National Population Commission, (NPC), says Nigeria’s population is now estimated at 206million. This comes exactly two years after the NPC estimated the country’s population at 198 million.
The Chairman of the NPC, Nasir Kwarra, said this at a press conference on the commencement of the next Enumeration Area Demarcation in Abuja on Tuesday.
Kwarra said since Nigeria had not been able to hold a census in the past 14 year, it would be difficult to know the exact population of the country.
He said, “In the absence of actual census, we formally do projections and we have all along being doing our projections and we estimate that as of 2020, the estimated population of Nigeria is 206 million”.
The NPC boss said the President, Muhammadu Buhari had the sole right to announce the next census.