The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to recruit not less than one million Nigerians for the conduct of the 2023 National Census. Information Guide Nigeria

The National Population Commission (NPC) disclosed this on Monday through its Ekiti State Commissioner at a press conference held at Ado Ekiti heralding the trial census to be conducted in the state preparatory to next year’s main census exercise. INDEPENDENT reports.

Speaking at the conference, Ajayi further made this known that nine towns across nine local governments selected out of the 16 LGAs in the state, had been delineated into Enumerated Areas (EAs) to ease the trial. jamb results

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He pointed out areas to be enumerated in the trial census as Ado, Emure, Iro, Ijero, Ikole, Iworoko, Ise, Ikun, and Omuo Ekiti.

Explaining the significance of census to nation-building, Ajayi said population statistics would be used by private organisations to plan for the recruitment of young Nigerians by knowing the number of the active population.

“The government will also use such statistics to plan for our youth, students, and the health needs of Nigerians. They will also know the number of senior citizens who should be catered for.”

Assuring that the exercise will be difficult to manipulate, the NPC boss said, “The biometric technology will capture your face and fingerprints and goes to the server and any similar information supplied will be noticed and expunged from the data immediately.

“This is the first time we will be doing a paperless census, everything will be digital to check corruption and bring about accurate data that can help national development.

“Census is a massive operation that will engage one million personnel and managing such a huge workforce manually will raise huge logistical and documentation challenges,” he added.

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