President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Simon Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The new appointees succeed the out-going Statistician-General, Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on August 16.
A statement issued by the Special Adviser, Media and Communications, to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Yunusa Abdullahi, indicated that Harry had contributed to the development of the nation’s statistical system for close to 30 years.
Before his elevation to the Statistician General position, the new appointee was the Director of, Corporate Planning and Technical Coordination Department of NBS
He joined the Federal Office of Statistics (FOS) as Statistician 11 in 1992 and rose to the position of a substantive Director of Statistics in 2019.
During his career in the NBS, Harry has contributed to several reform initiatives including the reform of the then FOS, which was transformed to the current National Bureau of Statistics.
The statement also indicated that the newly appointed Statistician General has, in the course of his career, also contributed to the reform of the Nigerian Statistical System which resulted in the creation and establishment of state bureaus of statistics at the sub-national level.
