{"id":77698,"date":"2025-10-29T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77698"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:35:08","slug":"npc-chairman-kwarra-bows-out-after-five-years-hands-over-to-dattijo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/npc-chairman-kwarra-bows-out-after-five-years-hands-over-to-dattijo\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC Chairman Kwarra Bows Out After Five Years, Hands Over to Dattijo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, has completed his five-year tenure, handing over leadership to Hon. Muhammad Dattijo, the Federal Commissioner representing Niger State, as Acting Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The brief handover ceremony held Tuesday at the NPC headquarters in Abuja was attended by Federal Commissioners, the Director-General, Directors, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, Kwarra thanked the Commission\u2019s management and staff for their support, highlighting achievements such as the digitisation of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), system and preparations for the forthcoming national census.<\/p>\n<p>He attributed the progress made under his leadership to \u201ccollective commitment, hard work, and professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dattijo will oversee the Commission pending the swearing-in of Aminu Yusuf as substantive chairman by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The national census, initially scheduled for 2023, is expected to be a top priority under the incoming leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, has completed his five-year tenure, handing over leadership to Hon. Muhammad Dattijo, the Federal Commissioner representing Niger State, as Acting Chairman. The brief handover ceremony held Tuesday at the NPC headquarters in Abuja was attended by Federal Commissioners, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77700,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77698\/revisions\/77700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}