The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has approved the appointment of Dr Simon B. Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Statistics.
The Special Adviser, Media and Communications to Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, confirmed in a statement, on Thursday, that Harry will succeed Dr Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on August 16, 2021.
Harry is currently the director of Corporate Planning and Technical Coordination Department of NBS with almost three decades of statistical experience.
