The Statistician General of the federation Dr. Simon Harry is Dead. According to Official sources, He Died in the early hours of Wednesday after a brief illness
Dr. Harry had been on admission at the Nisa Premier hospital till his passing, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the appointment of Dr. Simon B.Harry as the Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in August 2021 after the expiration of the tenure of Dr.Yemi Kale, whose second tenure of five years expired on 16th August, 2021.
He joined the erstwhile Federal Office of Statistics as Statistician 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 to the creation and establishment of State Bureau of Statistics at the sub-national level.
(Editor Paul Akhagbemhe)
