President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Simon B. Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation.
He will head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
In a statement by Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, media aide to Finance Minister, on Thursday, Dr Harry is to succeed the out-going Statistician-General, Dr Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on 16th August, 2021.
Until his appointment, Harry is the Director, 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.
According to the statement, Dr Harry, in the course of his civil service career, had 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 also culminated in the creation and establishment of State Bureaux of Statistics at the sub-national levels.
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