The National Bureau of Statistics has said it is committed to strengthening service delivery among Ministries, Departments and Agencies through effective management of administrative data.
The Statistician-General of the Federation, Adeyemi Adeniran, said this during a two-day In-Boarding Training of Integrated Systems of Administrative Statistics, and Equipment Distribution to MDAs in Abuja on Thursday.
Adeniran said the event was a strategic turning point in the nation’s journey toward a more integrated, efficient, and responsive national statistics system in the country.
While lamenting loss of the administrative data system in silos, destroyed, incorporated, and underutilized, Adeniran, however, said with the ISAS in place now, the story would change for the better.
“The ISAS initiative represents our bold response to this long-standing challenge.
“It is a comprehensive, historic approach to transforming how administrative data is collected, managed, shared and used across all tiers of government.
“With ISAS, we are laying the foundation for an integrated and interoperable data system where we can operationalise our data and exchange them seamlessly with our MDAs”, said.
He said the transformation was not merely technical but very crucial, cultural, institutional, and above all, collaborative, assuring the ISAS would serve as a centralised data repository that would be accessible to policymakers, researchers, and citizens at large.
Adeniran added the training would equip the participants with the knowledge and tools required to engage with ISAS confidently and productively.
