From Agaju Madugba, Katsina
Ahead of the scheduled 2023 national population and housing census, the National Population Commission (NPC) says it has launched an online portal for electronic recruitment of certain categories of ad hoc staff for the process. 
Addressing a press conference on Friday, RHA Katsina State NPC Federal Commissioner, Bala Almu Banye, explained that, “in order to carry out the gigantic task of conducting accurate and reliable Census, there is the
need for the recruitment of manpower that will carry out this exercise.
“The need to be fair and transparent in the recruitment process has led the Commission to introduce the online e-recruitment portal and train the officers that will superintend over this important census recruitment process.”
He listed some of the categories of ad hoc staff to include facilitators, training centre administrators monitoring and evaluations officers, data quality managers and supervisors, among others.
“The quality of the recruitment process will reflect on the quality of the data to be collected and ultimately the success of the 2023 census,” he said.