The Nasarawa State Government in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics will conduct census of industrial and commercial business across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state.
This is aimed at ensuring efficiency, effectiveness in their operations and proper monitoring.
The Commissioner, Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning, Haruna Adamu Ogbole, explained that the Governor of the state, Abdulahi Sule, places a high premium on statistical information as an integral tool for effective planning and implementation of policies and programmes of the government. Therefore, the need to know the status of poverty in the state and to also have timely indicators on the major sectors of the economy ranging from Agriculture to infrastructure and mines.
He added that the state government will continue to provide the National Bureau of Statistics with all the support required to enable it discharge it responsibilities in the state.
“The state government is making effort to establish the State Statistics Agency (SSA) to enable government to cope with the present challenges. There is an enabling law coming to empower the State Bureau of Statistics to discharge its responsibility creditably”, the commissioner explained.
