*approves 2.8bn for software
By Chesa Chesa
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a postponement of the 2023 population and housing census, earlier scheduled for March 29, to May 2023.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made the disclosure at the end of the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Aso Rock Villa.
Briefing State House Correspondents after the meeting, Mohammed explained that the decision was necessitated by the rescheduling of the gubernatorial election to March 18.
He also disclosed that the Council approved the sum of N2.8 billion for the National Population Commission (NPC) to procure software to be used for the conduct of the census.
“There was a memo presented by the National Population Commission, seeking for some software to allow them conduct the census in May this year. I believe because of the reschedulement of the elections, they cannot commence the census as scheduled.
“They sought Council’s approval for a contract to procure software for the census at the sum of N2.8 billion,” he said.
