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, IgbereTV reports
Kwarra, who stated this in a radio programme in Abuja, said the exercise would be digitalized to ensure the accuracy of generated figures.
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