As preparations are in top gear for the conduct of 2023 National Census, the leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has called on students and other critical stakeholders to give the needed support to the National Population Commission (NPC) to enable it carry out a hitch-free exercise that the outcome will be credible and acceptable to all Nigerians.
Vice-President, National Affairs, NANS, Comrade Victor Ezenagu, who briefed newsmen on Friday in Abuja, urged the students to remain calm as the exercise would not involve migration from one place to the other to be counted.
“It’s imperative we state that there is no need of migration by Nigerian students and teeming general public in order to be captured during the 2023 exercise, as the process is designed to ensure that everybody is counted at his or her various convenient zone in the nooks and crannies of Nigeria at large,” Ezenagu stated.
Speaking on the importance of the national census, NANS observed that the database would not only help the incoming administration in strengthening the economy of the country but would also be used for efficient education policy-making and allocation of funds for the development of education in Nigeria
Ezenagu, therefore, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his support in making sure the 2023 National Census becomes a reality as a matter of urgency, all in the interest of national unity.
“NANS wish to commend the level of preparedness of the National Population Commission (NPC) being the only body saddled with the responsibility of head and house counting, under the leadership of Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra as the Chairman who alongside the teeming staff of the commission have been up and doing to make sure it becomes exceptional and one of the best census across the world,” he said.
He passed a vote of confidence on the Commission, saying NANS was aware of the vast technologies deployed for the process of sensitization, awareness programmes and other things to keep Nigerians abreast on the census exercise, adding that the students were glad at the level of national unity portrayed in all her activities as it is devoid of religion and tribe.
He said: “We are calling on teeming Nigerian Students who are our colleagues to remain calm and brace up for the census as the database will be used for efficient education policy making, allocation of funds for the development of education in Nigeria.
“The process is specially designed for future use as job creation which will all be beneficiary after school are captured, so we appeal to all and sundry to cooperate with the census staff and agents as we are assuring you that no students will be left uncounted and the leadership of NANS is designed to be part and parcel of the whole exercise as this remains historic in the history of Nigeria society,” he said.
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