NPC to commence household numbering April 17

By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin

The National Population Commission (NPC) will begin building numbering and household listing by April 17, before the actual census exercise.

Kwara State Director of NPC, Alhaji Sa’eed Yusuf made this known in Ilorin, on Wednesday.

Yusuf said that the building numbering and household listing was part of the census exercise and would be for five days, after which there would be another training before census.

“There will be five days training for enumerators and supervisors between April 25 and April 30 in their respective local government areas for the success of the exercise,” the director explained.

The director said the training of enumerators could not hold on March 31 as earlier scheduled due to lack of logistics.

He, however, said that the training had been fixed for April 11 and would last for seven days.

He revealed that the actual people enumeration and housing census start on May 2 to May 7.

Reports earlier had it that the training of Data Quality Managers was held on April 3 and April 4, for those that would manage data, server and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).

Also, the Special Work Force training, for

those that would assist the data managers began on Wednesday, to finish on Friday.