President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Semiu Adeyemi Adeniran as the substantive Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with immediate effect.
This appointment follows the demise of the former Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr. Simon Harry, on 13th April 2022.
Semiu Adeniran is a professional statistician of repute with a bias toward Demography and Social Statistics. He has over three decades of statistical hands-on experience garnered from various local and international institutions.
Until his appointment, Semiu was the Director of Demographic and Household Statistics at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
