The 2022 National Personnel Audit, NPA, which has already commenced in 17 states of the federation, will gulp a total sum of N2 billion.
Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at a briefing on the commencement of the exercise.
NPA is a national school census programme carried by UBEC to update data on the number of teachers, students and basic education schools across the country.
According to Bobboyi, the 2022 NPA which will be in two phases has already commenced in 17 States of the country, specifically in South-East and South-South.
The UBEC boss further disclosed that the Northern phase covering 19states and the Federal Capital Territory will begin on the 4th of July and ends on Saturday, 23rd July, 2022.
While acknowledging that absence of credible data had remained a major challenge in basic education implementation for a long time, he emphasised that for NPA data to be continually useful as a planning tool, it must be regularly updated.
“The 2022 personnel audit should therefore be seen in the light of updating the basic education database created in 2022.
According to Dr.Bobboyi, during the exercise , enumerators will visit all basic education institutions in the country, the public , private, approved , unapproved , registered and unregistered will all be visited.
“On the 2022 NPA the commission is in partnership with relevant government government agencies, development partners and NGOs , National Bureau of Statistics, National Population Commission , Nigeria Air Space Research and Development Agency, NUT, Association of private school owners , the World Bank, Unicef, Grid3 among others,” he said.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the 2022 NPA, Prof. Bala Zakari, said the commission had generated list of basic schools in each local government area from State Universal Basic Education Boards to address issues of hard to reach areas and places facing security challenges.
Zakari said that denial of 2022 NPA teams access to schools will further contribute to the increasing number of Out of School.
“The NPA exercise is out to ensure that all existing learning centers will be counted along with available facilities in the schools we believe it will help partners in their intervention plans and will serve as database for the basic education institutions in Nigeria,” he said.