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By our reporter, Lafia
Nasarawa State Government says plan is under way to partner the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to conduct a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) survey on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) before the end of 2024.
Dr Ahmed Ibrahim, the Statistician General, Nasarawa State Bureau of Statistics (NSBS), disclosed this, while receiving Director Linkages and International Corporation of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Associate Professor K’tso Nghargbu on courtesy call in Lafia.
The Statistician General said, the state bureau would soon be collaborating with the National Bureau of Statistics to embark on the survey.
“We are going to launch SDGs survey on the state GDP, this is the first ever survey in the state to be conducted, so that the state will have a direction.
“And will know what is earning, because now, as it is Nasarawa State is blind in the area of statistical records,” he said.
Dr Ibrahim emphasized that, by the time the GDP survey successfully conducted, the state would be able to know what it could do and what it could earn on weekly, monthly and yearly.
Ibrahim also said the bureau was ready to collaborate with the Nasarawa State University in the areas of research and training for the progress of the state.
Associate Prof., K’tso Nghargbu, Director Linkages and International Corporation, Nasarawa State University said he was in the office of the state Statistician General, to congratulate him on his appointment, and to seek partnership with the Bureau
He commended Gov. Abdullahi Sule, for appointing an erudite scholar to man the State Bureau of Statistics.
“Academic and scholars thrive on statistics. We can write nothing, we can do nothing without statistics.
“It was a sort of stepping down a work that hitherto was hanging there at the National level. Many a time, we have gone to NBS, looking for one data or another,” he said.
He commended the Bureau’s synergy with the NBS to help citizens, students, researchers, scholars and other interested persons, to gain access to statistical data in the State.
He, however, advocated the establishment of similar office in other states, to reduce the burden of traveling to NBS headquarters, Abuja, as such would make life easy for those who want to access data.
“As a purely teaching, research and training institution, we cannot do without you”, hence the university’s intention to collaborate with the Bureau, he added.
Nghargbu, was optimistic that, the bureau has the capacity to guide its students and lecturers with necessary tools for more problem solving research.
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