The federal government has appointed a new statistician-general of the federation to replace the former one who had served out his two terms.
He is Simon Harry, who will also double as the Director-General of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The new statistician-general replaces Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on Aug. 16.
A statement from Yunusa Abdullahi, the Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, announced the baton change on Thursday.
Currently, Mr Harry is the Director of Corporate Planning and Technical Coordination Department of NBS with almost three decades of statistical experience.
He joined the 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, he has contributed to several reform initiatives including the reform of the then Federal Office of Statistics which was transformed to the current National Bureau of Statistics.
He also contributed to the reform of the Nigerian Statistical System which resulted in the creation and establishment of state bureaux of statistics at the sub-national level. ##
