NPC Staff Training Date Update

By now you should be aware that the 25th April date for Enumerators/Supervisors training that was spreading was false.

The only legit news for now is facilitators’ online training starting today, 24th April Wednesday, 26th April. As at the time of writing this, links for the Google Meeting has been shared.

Lagos state has been sending messages to their applicants. Kindly note that this is their internal arrangement for screening and accreditation and it doesn’t mean training will start.

For now, a new training date is yet to be fixed.

NPC chairman would meet with President Buhari on Tuesday, 25th April, 2023 to fix a new date for the population census after which date for the commencement of LGA level training would be announced.

Field functionaries at the LGA level would be trained for 12days. 7days for building numbering and household listing and 5 days for enumeration of persons.

Fieldwork would be for 10days, 5 days for building numbering and household listing, and 5 days for enumeration of persons. As it stands, census would not hold as initially planned for 2nd to 7th of May.

It will be moved by 2weeks, but it will still hold before the swearing in of the new government to power.

The National Population Commission (NPC) in Nigeria has denied reports that their server was hacked, which caused the postponement of training for the 2023 Population and Housing Census.

The NPC stated that the server is intact and has implemented comprehensive security measures to safeguard its systems from potential security threats.

The Commission also clarified that the recent mission of its Chairman to the United Nations was to attend the annual event on Population and Development, which is in line with the mandate of the NPC as the coordinating agency on population matters in Nigeria.

The NPC urges the public to disregard false information and support the Commission to ensure a secure and successful 2023 Census exercise.

You can Download the census manual, or check your training centres.

Also note that the plan for the 2023 census can only be possible if they succeed in raising the funds needed.