NNPP stands better chance to solve nation’s problem-Bello Yasin.
From Cyril Mbah, Abuja.
The National Women Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr. Maryam Jummai Bello Yasin, has appealed to Nigerians to vote for the party to enable its Presidential Candidate Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso to restructure the country.
Briefing newsmen after an extensive campaign tour of the southwest and parts of the north, Dr. Maryam Jummai Bello stated that Nigerians cannot afford to allow the All Progressives Congress to remain in office after inflicting the country and the people with so much suffering and poverty in the past seven and half years.
Jummai said the best way to come out of the present wretchedness experienced by many families was to vote out the ruling party, which she described as “a collection of corrupt and incompetent leaders.”
The NNPP, she said, has grown so big and Nigerians are willingly aligning with the party throughout the campaign tours of the presidential candidate, adding that the Kwankwasiyya has become a national movement.
“During our nationwide tours, we held town hall meetings where we addressed the people, listened to their complaints and problems and people have seen reason why they need to change the party in government.
“The hardship and suffering throughout the country are too much. The sitting government wants to ensure that the people experience so much suffering before it hands over if really it will hand over. We are not sure the APC wants to hand over going by its recent policies, which have inflicted so much suffering on Nigerians and reduced the peoples purchasing power,” Dr. Dr. Maryam Jummai Bello stated.
The women leader appealed to Nigerians to remain calm despite the artificial poverty that was imposed on the people by the APC and the government, adding “Nigerians are wiser today and proper change will come with the 2023 general elections. Nobody will deceive the people again. We are ready now to liberate ourselves in this country.”
NPC intensifies preparation for 2023 census, trains FCT facilitators.
From Cyril Mbah, Abuja.
The National Population Commission (NPC) has intensified its preparation for the 2023 national census by training facilitators who will be deployed for the headcount in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
NPC Commissioner for the FCT, Hon. Joseph Shazin, in an opening address at the ten-day facilitators training in Gwagwalada, said the 2023 population and housing census will be the first fully digitalized census in the country stressing that for this reason, the personnel that would be deployed for the exercise must be properly trained and equipped with the necessary skills for the task ahead.
Shazin stated that the facilitators training was among the series of preparatory workshops arranged for employees, adhoc staff and other important functionaries to be deployed for various roles during the headcount to acquaint them with relevant processes associated with the new technologies to be used for the census.
He charged the facilitators to pay rapt to the training pointing out that in a digitalized census, it was necessary that properly skilled workforce should be deployed to avoid mistakes and wrong use of the digital applications.
According to the commissioner, the training will adequately teach the facilitators the concepts of the 2023 census; provide clear guidelines for field enumeration procedures, provide guidelines on the use of census data collection applications and provide firsthand guide for census field operation.
He said the quality of the personnel used for the census will greatly impact on the results and outcome of the 2023 headcount, stressing that the facilitators must be adequately groomed because the officers are expected to also train census supervisors and the enumerators at the zonal and state levels before the census date.
“For us in the commission, getting the 2023 Population and Housing Census right is not just an option but an absolute necessity in our quest to deliver a credible, reliable, acceptable and verifiable 2023 census. The commission will leave no stones unturned to ensure that the 2023 census is carried out meticulously, professionally and scientifically,” Shazin said.
He disclosed that monitoring and evaluation instruments have been developed to ensure that predetermined objectives and processes outlined for the 2023 census are attained while also expressing the hope that knowledge acquired from the workshop will effectively prepare officers in key positions to function more efficiently and positively impact on the results of the headcount.
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