Precisely this institution was established in 1948 as a training unit for refresher course under the then Federal 

Office of Statistics ( which was a merger of FOS and National data bank ); while in 1961 its training activities was 

extended to other ministries and arastaters and later graduated to a fully fledged school in 1971, awarding middle 

level statistical officer certificate for a two year programme in statistics. In 2013 / 2014 Academic session, two 

other programms namely Computer science and Business Administration and management were introduced. While 

in 2018 / 2019 academic session, the department of Accountancy for National Diploma was also introduced. 

Furthermore in 2018/2019 Academic session, the HND (DPP) in Accountancy was as well introduced. In other 

words the school now runs both ND and HND programmes in  Statistics, Computer Science, Business 

Administration and Management and Accountancy.