Dar es Salaam, Sept. 18 -- THE Director General of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Dr Albina Chuwa, has said her office intends to extend its ability to have statistics of migrants into the country.

Dr Chuwa made the revelation while receiving some Information Communication Technology (ICT) equipment at a function here, recently.

The equipment worth USD 20,000 (about 46.4m/- ) was handed over to Dr Chuwa by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)'s Chief of Mission (CoM) to the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr Qasim Sufi.

According to Dr Chuwa who doubles as the country's Chief Statistician, NBS was for many years putting up a few research questions to obtain statistics on migrants into the country, adding that it wa...