The National Population Commission, NPC plans to engage over one million officers to conduct the proposed 2017 population census.
Chairman of the Commission, Chief Eze Duruiheoma disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja.
He said that "... a total of 1.1million enumerators, 50,500 supervisors and 5,050 field coordinators will be recruited and trained for the actual census."
He also said that the commission has been engaged in pre-census activities including the acquisition of necessary equipment for the exercise.
“We have acquired High Resolution Imageries, required for the Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) for the census.
“ We have demarcated and produced Satellite Image Enumeration area maps for Akoko South-East LGA in Ondo State in December 2014, as a pilot exercise for the EAD project. The first phase of the EAD covering seven LGAs in each of the six geo political zones and the FCT is currently ongoing and training for the second phase of the EAD is ongoing in 29 LGAs in 29 states among others,” he said.
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