The Federal Government has announced that to eliminate to the barest minimum the possibility of human errors, the 2018 Census will be bio-metric based.
This was revealed on Monday by the Sokoto State Federal Commissioner of the National Population Commission, NPC, Barrister Muhammadu Aminu Jason while addressing newsmen.
In his words: “As a prelude the commission will today (Monday) commence the third phase of Enumeration Area Demarcation, EAD, in Illela Local Government Area, LGA of Sokoto State.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that EAD is said to be a process of deploying high calibre technology to divide the landmass of a country into small units that can be easily covered by a team of enumerators during census enumeration.
Speaking further, Jason said: “The significance of the EAD exercise goes beyond the conduct of the 2018 census hence it will be used as an established national data for generating accurate locality list including house numbering for subsequent census.
“The commission had previously demarcated 37 local government areas in all the 36 states of the federation including Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in the previous EAD exercise.
“Nigerians have no reason whatsoever not to believe the outcome of the 2018 census as we are deploying sophisticated technology in carrying out the EAD exercise,” Jason stated.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Federal Government, had last week released over N775 million for the conduct of EAD exercise ahead of next year’s census.