INEC partners NBS on data synergy for national development

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed readiness to spouse with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to fortify the collection, management, and usage of information for nationalist development.

The committee added that the anticipated concern was besides for cardinal services that would beryllium beneficiary to Nigerians.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance erstwhile helium received the Statistician-General of the Federation, Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, who paid him  a courtesy sojourn connected Tuesday successful Abuja.

Yakubu, who noted that the gathering betwixt some agencies was archetypal of it kind, added  that it was besides important successful harnessing organization strengths for nationalist development.

He said that portion the NBS managed the nation’s largest authoritative database connected each aspects of nationalist life, INEC maintained the astir extended database of big citizens for elections, safeguarded by instrumentality and successful compliance with the National Data Protection Act.

“Today’s gathering focuses connected however NBS tin leverage connected the commission’s  network of locations for electoral services,  for the payment of citizens beyond elections, which lone hap erstwhile successful 4 years oregon arsenic the request arises.

“You whitethorn callback that pursuing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic 5 years ago, we worked successful synergy with the Presidential Task Force (PTF) and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

“We synergised by deploying immoderate of our vehicles which are nationalist assets to facilitate corruption prevention and control, interaction tracing and surveillance.

“We are ever consenting to spouse with nationalist agencies wrong the confines of the law, portion maintaining our independence.

“We respect our concern with NBS successful this context,” Yakubu said.

However, helium urged the NBS to widen its statistic publications and nationalist engagement with stakeholders, to the authorities of nationalist buildings, with the purpose of improving them for electoral services.

According to INEC chairman, astir polling units and ward collation centres nationwide were located successful nationalist buildings, bulk of them successful authorities superior and secondary schools.

He said that implicit the years, stakeholders, particularly the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and groups representing the assemblage of persons with disability, person appealed to the committee  to amended these facilities.

The INEC brag  appealed for the proviso of  electricity and h2o for advertisement hoc staff, arsenic good arsenic entree facilities specified arsenic ramps for citizens with peculiar needs, during elections arsenic good arsenic  electoral activities specified arsenic elector registration.

“We impulse the NBS to adhd these concerns to the statistic connected the authorities of nationalist facilities that you periodically people and successful your engagement with law bodies specified arsenic the National Economic Council (NEC) successful which each authorities governors successful Nigeria are members.

“Let these facilities, which bid our youths astatine the instauration and intermediate levels of the acquisition system, beryllium beneficiaries of the wide proclaimed dividends of democracy,” Yakubu said.

He further urged stakeholders to research INEC’s Atlas of Electoral Constituencies and Electoral Facilities Locator (EFLoc) some disposable connected the commission’s  website, arsenic reliable resources for mapping electoral infrastructure crossed the country.

Speaking earlier, Adeniran said that the sojourn was for the bureau to collaborate with INEC to guarantee that disposable information wrong Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) were harmonised and disposable for nationalist and organization usage.

He commended INEC’s diligence and transparency successful managing Nigeria’s electoral process and pledged that the NBS would  work with INEC to marque its data, including those connected the ongoing CVR, disposable to citizens, particularly those astatine the grassroots.

“The halfway mandate of the NBS is to warehouse each authoritative information for the country,  so that we tin marque those information disposable to the nationalist and to authorities to bash their work, to marque progra...