Few Months after he was appointed the Statistician General of the Federation Simon Harry died this morning in Abuja.
His death came few days after it was first rumoured.
The National Bureau of Statistics had come out to deny the death of its boss.
However, Simon reportedly died Wednesday morning after battling with an undisclosed illness.
Sunday Ichedi, who is the Head of communication for National Bureau of Statistics confirmed that Simon was dead.
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.
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