Its Executive Secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, said the exercise commenced in the southern part on June 6, and ended on 25 of same month, while it would take off in northern states and the Federal Capital Territory from July 4 to 23.
The UBEC boss, who made this known at a press briefing, yesterday, in Abuja, said: “During the exercise, our enumerators will visit all basic education institutions in the country: Public, private, approved, unapproved, registered and unregistered.
“They are going there to collect basic information on schools and personnel. It is necessary to emphasise that the exercise has no ulterior motive. The data, being collected, will assist the country to plan effectively towards expanding access to quality education and promoting gender parity at basic and other levels of education.”
Bobboyi said the exercise, which will see to headcount of teachers, pupils, non-teaching personnel and others in early childhood education, primary schools and junior secondary schools, would cost N2 billion.
His words: “This is a census, you have to send enumerators to every school in the federation. It is something we pegged at N2 billion. We are working.
On his part, chairman of the 2022 National Personnel Audit, Prof. Bala Zakari, sought support and cooperation of school owners and stakeholders for successful execution of the job at hand
