National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has debunked reports making rounds that the Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr Simon Harry is dead.
A section of the media (Gatekeepers News not included) had claimed that the SG was dead, a report which has been described as false by the NBS Director, Communication and Public Relations Department, Ichedi Joel in a statement released on Sunday.
The statement noted that the SG was ill on Saturday and was much better on Sunday after taking medications.
The statement reads: “The Bureau wishes to state that there is no iota of truth in what was published by an online medium and considers the publication as the height of irresponsible journalism and a figment of the imagination of the publisher.
“The fact of the matter is that the Statistician-General was slightly indisposed on Saturday and following medication is now recuperating.
“We are well certain that he would, in a matter of a few days, be back to his desk and continue his work in repositioning the NBS as the foremost national statistics agency in Africa and among the best globally.”
Gatekeepers News reports that Dr Simon Harry was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Statistician-General of the Federation and also head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in August 2021.
