The Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr. Simon Harry, is dead.
His death was confirmed by the Director, Corporate Communications and Public Relations at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Sunday Ichedi.
Ichedi said, “It is confirmed, the statistician general is dead.”
Sources familiar with the development said the late Harry was rushed to the hospital last Saturday and was responding to treatment but gave up the ghost on Wednesday morning.
Harry was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in August 2021 after the tenure expiration of Yemi Kale who served as statistician general for two terms.
Before his appointment as the head of NBS, the deceased was the Director, Corporate Planning and Technical Coordination Department with about three decades of statistical experience.