The Federal Government in collaboration with the Nasarawa State government, has commenced the biometric data capturing of 196,873 pupils in public schools
The programme was flagged off on Thursday in Lafia, the state capital by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq.
Represented by Abdullahi Usman, the minister inaugurated the programme in two schools namely, Local Government Education Authority Lafia East and Roman Catholic Mission Nasarawa-Eggon.The Minister said the exercise would also capture the data of 2,081 food vendors and pupils from primary one to three in 1,203 public schools across the 13 local government areas of the state.
She also explained that the exercise was aimed at authenticating the data of the pupils and vendors given to the ministry from the various state governments to ensure proper planning. “We would be carrying out enumeration of pupils on yearly basis to enable us capture more beneficiaries to update our database.
“The yearly verification would also help us capture newly admitted pupils and those on transfer from other schools,” the Minister added.
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