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Nigeria population figures not accurate-UNFPA

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) Assistant Representative in Nigeria, Osaretin Adonri, has said the Nigerian population figures are speculative, projected and not accurate. The country is long overdue for a census, which would dismiss the catalogue of speculative population figures.  The 2006 population census conducted puts Nigeria’s population at 140,003,542 while the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 2012 data estimated Nigeria’s population to be 166.2 million. “Nigeria needs a census for population accuracy and effective planning,” Adonri said.  According to the UNFPA 2019 State of the World Population report, Nigeria’s population has increased to 201 million, having grown at average rate of 2.6 per cent from 2010 to 2019. Credit: Financial Nigeria
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FEC Approves New Employment Programme Targeting 60,000 Youths



- The federal executive council (FEC) has approved new scheme called the N- power knowledge multi-track youth empowerment programme.
-The minister of Budget and Planning, Udoma Udoma announced this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the the council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.
- The new scheme is targeted at creating employment for 60,000 Nigerians from age 18-25 Years.
-Under the scheme, 12,000 unemployed or underemployed graduates will be trained on mobile computing and commonly used electronic devices.
- After the training, each of the initial 12,000 selected and trained will be empowered to train five other youths, leading to additional 60,000 jobs.
- The scheme will be run under the National Social Investment Programne (NSIP) and opened to all unemployed graduates aged 18-25 years.
- The contract for the programme was awarded to Soft come Ltd working with officials of NSIP.
-N259,000 to be spent on the training and N207,000 for work tools per youth.
-The programme values N5,595,669,250 with completion period of nine months.




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