Federal Census

Nigeria is a country with passion and desire for accurate census in the country for good planning and budgeting, among others, but this idea has been marred by errors because of the lack of knowledge areas, settlements and demarcation of enumeration areas. Conducting surveys in Nigeria have been successful if the Nigerian government has not shown an antipathy to the use of remote sensors for identification and demarcation of settlement boundaries, the demarcation of enumeration areas. It is not clear why Nigeria, the giant of Africa is still uncomfortable with the use of these electronic devices reliable.

Perhaps it may also defeats the purpose of the national identity card which would have contributed to a better estimate of the size of the population of the country or at least reduce inflation results when voters elections, but it was not the idea and the project has been deliberately undervalued to give back to the status quo.

However, critics believe that they may have to do with fear from certain regions of the country that the use of this assistance will be very revealing of the true population figure across the country. This idea can not be wrong, after all, we consider that each region of the country's population considers necessary for the allocation of revenues. The census in Nigeria is therefore a significant national project.

The history of population censuses in Nigeria is characterized by controversy. The 2006 census population and housing is not an exception to what is described here. Indeed, as noted in the editorial of The Guardian Newspaper, Monday, January 22nd 2007 on the 2006 population and housing census in Nigeria spread on how the figure obtained by the Commission was twisted deformed and disrupted. The idea of population census in Nigeria has been transformed into a complex form of competition between the South and North. The 2006 census population was plagued by widespread slippers census. The census of 2006 has witnessed the plight of many citizens of their colonies, or perhaps hiding in-residence, begging to be counted, even the enumerators were too few to enforce the national mission and left exhausted.

Reports have also claimed thousands of enumerators who have left because they had not been paid or the rumor that they may not be paid at all, an extension of the Nigerian factor, which, while n ' was not strange for a typical Nigerian. The 2006 census population and housing can not be concluded in haste to be satisfactory or having a wider coverage given the past circumstances and constraints that the Commission would have us believe hook, line and sinker . This result was predictable. The census figure of Lagos State who ran the Commission is a testimony of a "bad job" done by the Commission that the State's population has been deliberately reduced and shows like South has been competition in the North.

Although the Commission in its reply, entitled "Advertorial: Re: Census-2006: a replica of the opinion editorial in the Guardian on Monday, 22nd January 2007" and published on its website claimed that Lagos has a lot 3345 km2, is a city state and less than one sixth of the land in Kano State (20,680 km2) that is never trite to say that all coastal areas are more densely populated areas which have been raised the Commission is no doubt, but it is far from being applicable to the case of Lagos and Kano States in Nigeria. It can certainly be the case among European countries but not Nigerian Lagos and Kano. Even a layman normally will realize that every family in Nigeria has one or more family members living in Lagos.

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