President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of
Simon B. Harry to replace Yemi Kale as the new statistician-general of the
federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, special adviser, media and
communication, to the minister of finance, budget and national planning, stated
this in a statement on Thursday.
Yemi Kale’s second term tenure of five years expired on
August 16, 2021.
“Currently, Dr Harry is the Director, corporate planning and
technical coordination, Department of NBS with almost three decades of
statistical experience,” the statement reads.
“He joined the erstwhile 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, 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
sub-national level.”
Since his appointment in 2011, Kale turned the National
Bureau of Statistics (NBS) into a data powerhouse and one of the few agencies
that changed the face of civil service in Nigeria.
He was reappointed by President Buhari in 2016 after the end
of his tenure.
During his tenure, he drew the Nigerian economy closer to
vision 20:2020 by rebasing the country’s GDP, capturing the new
telecommunications industry, the bigger banking sector, the entertainment
sector, among others.
After the rebasing, Nigeria realised that it was the biggest
economy on the continent and six spots away from its goal of becoming one of
the top 20 by 2020.
The results of the rebasing process were validated by a
panel of local experts, including Olu Ajakaiye, Akpan Ekpo, Ganiyu Garba, Ayo
Teriba, Yemi Fajingbesi, Doyin Salami and Adeola Adenikiju.
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