The Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale, made the called while speaking at the National Stakeholders Validation Workshop in Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria.
Dr. Kale said for Nigeria to be among the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020, the present administration must give much consideration to the production and usage of credible data.
He stressed the importance of accurate and credible data in strategic development plans, in order to make better decisions for enhanced policy making.
The NBS boss observed that Nigeria needed robust and reliable statistics in order to effectively implement the Sustainable Development Goals and effectively monitor its socio-economic programmes.
While discrediting speculations that Nigeria’s unemployment rate was on the upsurge, he added that most of the past economic policies failed due to lack of well- informed decisions that would catalyse social and economic development.
The Director of Field Services and Methodology, NBS, Felicia Abioye, hinted that the meeting would review and update the National Strategic Development Plan for 2015- 2019.
The representative of the European Union, Professor Peter Osanaiye and Statistician General of Kaduna State, Bashir Bature, stressed the need for the Nigerian government to strengthen the nation’s Bureau of statistics in order to get an accurate data for policy formulation.
With no clear and accurate number of unemployed youths, health profile of citizens and poverty indices, the meeting was aimed at sensitising relevant stakeholders on the enormous task of data generation.
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