The Statistician-General of Nigeria, Simon Harry, is dead
His death was confirmed by the Director, Communication and Public Relations Department, Ichedi Joel on Wednesday in Abuja
He said he died on Thursday morning.
Harry was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in August 2021 as statistician-general of the federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) after the tenure of Yemi Kale
Harry joined the erstwhile Federal Office of Statistics as statistician 11 in 1992 and rose to the position of director of statistics in 2019.
Before his appointment as the statistician-general of the federation. Harry was the director of corporate planning and technical coordination, department of the NBS — with almost three decades of statistical experience
