Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr. Simon Harry, is dead.

Sources told Daily Trust that he was rushed to the hospital on Saturday and was responding to treatment but he died on Wednesday morning.

Confirming the development, the Director, Corporate Communications and Public Relations at the NBS, Mr. Sunday Ichedi said, “It is confirmed, the statistician general is dead.”

He however refused to give details of the development.

Harry was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in August 2021 to replace Yemi Kale as statistician-general of the federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

He joined the erstwhile Federal Office of Statistics as statistician 11 in 1992 and rose to the position of director of statistics in 2019.