That's costly but it has its advantages
At least the government would know what their budget should be

222billion for dis recession...make una no bother....we go count ourselves

Shey dem wan share d money ni or what?

That wouldn't stop my brothers somewhere from fronting their cows as humans.

222 billion and Nigeria is estimated to be about 180- 190million. so how much are u spending to count one person? Nigerian leaders are worse than lucifer!

To hell with your counting, they don't even count every body, they count animals also.... now na recession, no need to count, let us cope with estimates.

Census in recession? Another mis-placed priority Dumb f.ools!...what's been the aftermath of previous ones?...keep deceiving yourselves.

We want to spend hundreds of billions just to count ourselves?

au voleaur

hmm

Ok.
But [size=20pt]that is N1,200 per head counted![/size]

Lilimax:
How many billion? ok nah!
Btw, who this census epp?.

After everything, they won't still get the accurate figure of Nigerians.
Estimated figure of Nigerian has been the order of the day.

They kept on saying that Nigeria population is about 160 - 170 Billion

Sis, Billions? How many are we in the world biko?

population census, if carried out with utmost good faith and sincerity of purpose can help us out of this recession and future needs, as a father without the knowledge of the number, demograhics ,status e.t.c of his children cannot take care of them properly.... Population census can serve as an alternative for economic growth and development if given utmost priority

PaulIdu:
We don't need any dirty Census now ...get together a working birth and death registry and stop all this criminal ventures of stealing money and wasting people's time all in the name of census
.GSM data base can give us an idea of where the country's population is at with a margin of error of + or - 30 percent and then we can use a birth and death registry to smoothen data out with time ...at 222 billion naira the NJC wants to use 1500 naira to count each person ..nonsense

We have a poor data collection system in Nigeria. In Kenya, every birth is registered even if it is in their far flung regions, by law the minimum age of finishing secondary school is around 18 so when they are in their equivalent of S.S.3 they begin to fill form for their National ID cards and once they clock 18 they get their IDs as without the ID no university admission nor even get a job.

Before anyone is buried the government is informed even if the person died at home in the village, failure to do so means arrest and prosecution of those that buried the corpse. On government officials confirming the death, the National ID is returned back to the government.

Lilimax:
How many billion? ok nah!
Btw, who this census epp?.

After everything, they won't still get the accurate figure of Nigerians.
Estimated figure of Nigerian has been the order of the day.

They kept on saying that Nigeria population is about 160 - 170 Billion

to me, Nigeria has less than 120million people.

Wizdude:


Sis, Billions? How many are we in the world biko?

I meant Millions biko

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Lol . This another means of finagling cash . Oh boy ! 222 billion naira

Oga you never ready to count Nigerians. If you ready first start with the figures INEC and Banks get in there data base from voters registration and BVN.
The come tell us how many Nigerians dey based on that figure first before you go come tell us how best to capture the remaining which will be mostly those under the age of 18 and those without bank accounts.
Until then bros this 222Billion is always going to be too much.

In nigeria is take it by force..tell me why my brothers won't go about their bunkery business

Is it not still oil money that would fetch out this 222billion naira 10 percent of that money would only be used and the remaining gulped by the thieving parastatal...

this misguided govt, they wont cease to surprise us. prices of food items are skyrocketing and yet some stupiid idiots want to spend money that could have otherwise been used to subsidize cost of living to do census.

Just to count people in nigeria they need 222b, if these ones want to count people in china please how much would they request for? Nigeria is sinking

Oga ooo.... Billion for wetin now ehn dis pple with thief thief. Make den no deceive us jare then no go go maidugari

These idiots that haven't given me my national ID card almost two years after application

222 billion

Please let's support this census
...so they can count us finish and add all our names in the book of life.

shouldn't we first get the national identity card and records right before talking about census?

A nl above me stated that the use of birth and death registers should be enforced by the government. I think this is a good idea. You can't bury your dead without first registering. That of birth is a little bit difficult but it can be done. There will not be affidavit of age but birth certificate from 2019. This will be effective when registering new nursery or primary school pupils. As for those villagers that has no access to birth registration and those who thought it is useless exercise effort should be made by government to get them aware of its usefulness to the child when he or she grows up and the demand becomes mandatory for services needed.

222 bee....hummm

these thieves should be ready to count sahara desert sand join

We don't even need it