The NPC has completed the Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in local government areas of the country, as well
as the first and second Census Pretest in selected Enumeration Areas in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal
Capital Territory.
By Deborah Hassan
365Daily– The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has urged the media lead advocacy for the success of 2023 census.
He said this on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at the opening of a three-day National Capacity Building Workshop on 2023 Population and Housing Census
for state directors and management staff of National Orientation Agency (NOA) by National Population Commission (NPC) in Abuja.
The National Capacity Building Workshop was organised to educate the management and state directors of NOA on the methodology and processes for the 2023 census.
It was also to leverage nationwide and grassroots reach and structures of NOA in the publicity campaign of the 2023 census.
Represented by Dr Garba Abari, the Director-General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mohammed described census as a “very important milestone in National Development.”
Speaking directly to government-owned media, he urged Radio Nigeria, Voice of Nigeria, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)
and others to rise to the occasion, while commending the National Population Commission (NPC) for its commitment to conducting an accurate and reliable digital census in 2023.
Earlier, the Chairman of NPC, Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, said that the workshop was a demonstration of the commission’s commitment to the census.
He added that “the conduct of this important workshop underscores the determination of the commission to effectively mobilise Nigerians,
not only for the 2023 Census but also other activities of the commission.”
Kwarra explained that the commission would leverage on the nationwide grassroots outreach of the NOA to communicate with
Nigerians.
He reiterated NPC’s need to collaborate with NOA in areas where the agency has comparative advantage over the commission, listing such
areas as community engagements, field sensitisation campaign, engagements with traditional institutions, Community Based Organisations (CBOs), Civil Society
Organisations, among others.
Prof. Uba Nnabue, the Deputy Chairman, Publicity and Advocacy Committee, called for increased publicity and advocacy aimed at sensitising Nigerians on the importance of census.
Nnabue expressed the willingness of the commission to collaborate with relevant agencies and the media for a successful census.
The NPC has completed the Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in local government areas of the country, as well
as the first and second Census Pretest in selected Enumeration Areas in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal
Capital Territory, in preparation for the census.