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NPC to employ 1.5m ad-hoc staff for 2023 census
The Executive Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa Kwarra, said on Saturday the commission would employ 1.5 million ad-hoc staff for the country’s national census slated for April next year.
Kwarra, who stated this in a radio programme in Abuja, said the exercise would be digitalized to ensure the accuracy of generated figures.
READ ALSO: Nigeria to hold national census by April 2023
He said: “The methodology for the next census has been designed to produce not only accurate, reliable and acceptable census, but also inclusive and user-friendly census data.”
The country’s last national census took place in 2007.
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