Buhari Appoints Simon Harry as Statistician-General

Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Simon B. Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Harry is to succeeded the outgoing Statistician-General, Dr. Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on August 16, 2021.

A statement issued by Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, the Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said Harry is currently the Director, Corporate Planning and Technical Coordination Department of NBS with about three decades of statistical experience.

He joined the erstwhile Federal Office of Statistics as Statistician II 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 subnational level,” the statement said.