The Albino Foundation Public Notice
The Statistician-General of the Federation and head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Simon B. Harry, has died.
He died Wednesday morning in Abuja.
NBS Director of Communication and Public Relations, Ichedi Joel, confirmed the death saying Dr Harry died from an illness.
The late Simon Harry was appointed as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in August 2021.
Dr. Harry succeeded Dr. Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on 16th August, 2021.
Before his appointment, Dr. Harry was 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.
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 Bureaus of Statistics at the sub-national level.
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