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Statisticians in the country have requested
that stakeholders in Nigeria give out accurate data to help develop the various
sectors as it is urgent to better preposition the country in the area of food
productivity and food security across the country.
Speaking at the two days event,
Statistician-General of the Federation Dr. Yemi kale said that data can play a
major role in the development of the various sectors, as it was necessary for
information’s to be properly documented to aid improvement of the industry,
adding that date touches every aspect of human endeavours including feeding.
He said the recommendations from the
workshop will be refocusing the production of official statistics for better
public service delivery in Nigeria.
His words: “All the recommendations that
would emerge from this workshop will help in refocusing the production of
official statistics for better public service delivery in Nigeria.
“I believe if we do the right thing at the
right time and for the right reasons, Nigeria and indeed Africa can be great.”
The theme of the event is, “Data
Warehousing and Dissemination for Security and National Development: Creating
Synergy among the Data-value Chain”.
The Data expert said data plays major roles
in shaping and providing useful scientific information that impact on almost
every aspect of human endeavour.
“We are living in a global information
society where the flow of information is constantly increasing and evolving.
“Data is playing a major role in shaping
and providing useful scientific information that impact on almost every aspect
of human endeavour.
“The significance of statistical
information for making evidenced-based decisions that guide the implementation
policy, monitoring of existing policy and evaluation of the effectiveness of
policy decisions cannot be over-emphasized”.
He explained that statistics provide users
with clear objective, numerical data on all aspects of lives and state of the
country as regards growth and
characteristics of the existing
population.
Prof Edwin Idu, Team Leader of Data-Africa,
noted the need to drive socio-economic development in Africa on the basis of
credible data and provision of
evidence-based information.
He said the conference would help in
creating new narrative with respect to data warehousing and dissemination for
security and national development.
Prof. Idu said his organization hopes to
create a new narrative that will really address challenges and salient issues and find possible way of using data
for planning and financial development.
He said the Organization also aim to link
stakeholders across the data value chain to share information and create
synergies to support the data sector.
“Data is a key development resource for
planning, coordination and making informed decision. Yet the discussion on data
value chain in Africa has been sparse.
“We are here with the practitioners, and
researchers to address the new challenges in the data industry and provide more
pro-active measures for the usage of data for security and national
development.
“We work with relevant stakeholders in the
industry especially, National Bureau of Statistics, researchers, policy makers
and the private sectors to create the needed synergy to support the development
of the industry.
“To increase income and economic growth of
the data value chain and prioritizing and stimulating interventions to increase
competitiveness.”
In his remarks, Dr Hussaini Ibrahim,
Director-General, Raw Material and Research Development Council, emphasised the
need for provision of evidence-based information to drive socio-economic
development on the African continent.
“This requires the zeal for provision of
official statistics as a veritable and indispensable tool needed for driving
the quest for economic growth and sustainability of the African nations.
“We need to focus on how to optimise
sustainable growth in the data industry in Africa and provided practical steps
towards value chain approaches to increase the market for processed data,”he
added.
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