President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr
Simon B. Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation
and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Statistics
(NBS).
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Special Adviser, Media and Communications to Minister of
Finance, Budget and National Planning, Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, said
in a statement, on Thursday, that Harry will succeed Dr Yemi Kale,
whose second term tenure of five years expired on August 16,
2021.
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Harry is currently the director of, Corporate Planning and
Technical Coordination Department of NBS with almost three decades
of statistical experience.
He joined the erstwhile Federal Office of Statistics as
Statistician 11 in 1992 and rose to the position of a substantive
Director of Statistics in 2019.
In the course of his civil service career, Dr Harry has
contributed to several reform initiatives including the reform of
the then Federal Office of Statistics which transformed to the
current National Bureau of Statistics, the reform of the Nigerian
Statistical System which resulted in the creation and establishment
of State Bureaus of Statistics at the sub-national level.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr
Simon B. Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation
and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Statistics
(NBS).
Special Adviser, Media and Communications to Minister of
Finance, Budget and National Planning, Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, said
in a statement, on Thursday, that Harry will succeed Dr Yemi Kale,
whose second term tenure of five years expired on August 16,
2021.
Harry is currently the director of, Corporate Planning and
Technical Coordination Department of NBS with almost three decades
of statistical experience.
He joined the erstwhile Federal Office of Statistics as
Statistician 11 in 1992 and rose to the position of a substantive
Director of Statistics in 2019.
In the course of his civil service career, Dr Harry has
contributed to several reform initiatives including the reform of
the then Federal Office of Statistics which transformed to the
current National Bureau of Statistics, the reform of the Nigerian
Statistical System which resulted in the creation and establishment
of State Bureaus of Statistics at the sub-national level.