The meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Director-General of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa-Kwarra, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the Council of State meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Isa-Kwarra also said the NPC would be conducting a pilot census from June 2022 after political parties must have concluded their pre-general election activities.
The NPC boss, who recalled that the last census exercise held in 2006, disclosed that the commission will deploy high technology for the exercise.
Isa-Kwarra said: “It is very crucial because I have highlighted that the census is a very important exercise for the nation.
“Because through census we generate the data that we use for policy making, for planning, for development, by the three tiers of government, and the private sector, they all need this.
“If you are a private sector, you’re producing something, certainly, you need to know the population of an area if you want to create a market there.
“So census data is very crucial, very important. Because, the data we’ve been using are just projections, estimation. And are sort of obsolete, we need the actual census data to use for our planning.“