National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Board has denied media publications insinuating the death of the Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Simon Harry.
According to the Bureau,there is no iota of truth in the report published by an online medium on Sunday, 10th April 2022.
“We consider the publication as the height of irresponsible journalism andfigment of the imagination of the publisher. Journalism ethics require that any journalist should check the fact and be sure of the veracity of his information before publishing. The reverse was the case here”
The NBS Director of Communications and Public Relations, Ichedi Sunday in a signed statement made available to Channel Network Afrique indicated 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 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. We are all mortals and by nature sometimes get weary. That is the case of the Statistician General now and it is not unusual for anybody to get sometimes get weary in the course of daily endeavours”.
The Bureau however urged the public to disregard the publication describing it a fake News.
