NPC launches recruitment portal for 2023 census

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Ahead of the April 2023 Population and Housing Census exercise, the National Population Commission (NPC) has launched the E-recruitment Portal to successfully conduct the exercise. 

On Monday in Abuja at the commission’s headquarters, Alhaji Nasir Isa-Kwarra, the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), said majority of the personnel for the 2023 Census would be drawn from the communities where they reside. 

“This will remove the huge logistics of moving personnel across the country. Consequently, every community will have the opportunity of contributing to the census workforce, thereby ensuring that the people are adequately counted,” he said.

He maintained that “the gigantic task of conducting accurate and reliable census requires the recruitment of manpower that will carry out the exercise”. 

He said the commission’s commitment to fairness and transparency in the recruitment process led to the introduction of the online e-recruitment portal, adding that this aims to train the officers that will superintend over the census recruitment process. 

“I am happy to inform Nigerians that the Commission will, through the online recruitment process, request for applicants from the following categories of field staff that will be needed to prosecute the next Census: Facilitators, Training Centre Administrators, Monitoring and Evaluations Officers, Data Quality Managers, Data Quality Assistants, Supervisors, Enumerators.

“The number of functionaries to be recruited in each category will depend on the number of available vacancies in each State, which will be derived largely from the total number of Enumeration Areas (EA) in the States,” he disclosed. 

The Director General (DG) National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Garba Abari, noted that Nigeria is a big country with a huge population and for everyone to be counted requires significant human resources, assuring of the agency’s support to ensure a credible 2023 census.

The Postmaster General, Sunday Adeyemi Adepoju, noted that proper preparation prevents poor performance,  expressing confidence in the NPC to conduct a credible election in 2023.

Presenting an overview of the e-recruitment portal, the Census Manager, Inuwa Jalingo, said the e-recruitment aims to recruit staff who will work in all areas in the six geo-political zones, and from all communities to enable adequate coverage of every citizen, disclosing that the exercise will require over 25 million Nigerians to apply as ad-hoc staff.

A high point of the event was the decoration of key stakeholders from the NOA, NIPOST, INEC, NIMC, NYSC Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, and NBS as Ambassadors of the 2023 census to join the league of Governors and President Muhammadu Buhari who had also been decorated as Ambassadors.

Source: radionigeria.gov.ng 

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