Gloria Ogbu
The National Population Commission (NPC) on Thursday held a one-day capacity building workshop for Journalists in Ekiti state ahead of the forthcoming Population and Housing Census slated to hold between March 29 and April 3, 2023.
The NPC Federal Commissioner representing Ekiti State, Mr Ayodeji Ajayi, while declaring the programme opened disclosed that the training is towards a hitch-free Census exercise.
According to the Federal Commissioner, the capacity workshop is targeted at improving the media content on the 2023 Census, so as to enable various stakeholders participating in the exercise to be abreast with the conduct of the exercise.
Ajayi who disclosed that the Commission is ready to conduct a successful exercise, solicited the cooperations and supports of Journalists as critical stakeholders to ensure a successful exercise.
On his part, the Ekiti State Director, NPC, Mr Ademola Oladapo, stated that the programme is targeted at creating awareness on the preparation and activities of the NPC towards the exercise.
Oladapo also charged various media outlets in Ekiti to engage in publicity and advocacy so as to create awareness that would make the organization to conduct a hitch-free exercise.
The Head of Unit, Technical Department, NPC, Mrs Yemisi Ipinlaye, in a paper titled “Processes and Methodology for the 2023 Population and Housing Census revealed that the organization have successfully trained a total number of 786,751 functionaries out of which about 623,797 are enumerators and 125,944 supervisors.
Other preparatory move by the organisation mentioned by her are training of about 24,001 Data Quality Assistant, 12,000 Field Coordinators 1,000 Data Quality Managers, 1,639 Trained Centres Administrators and 59,000 local government level facilitators among others.