{"id":448440,"date":"2022-05-20T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=448440"},"modified":"2022-05-20T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T20:02:03","slug":"buhari-names-semiu-adeniran-new-statistician-general-of-nbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=448440","title":{"rendered":"Buhari names Semiu Adeniran new Statistician General of NBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhar has approved the appointment of Mr. 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.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement on Friday issued by Sufuyan Ojeifo, Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment follows the demise of the former Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr Simon Harry, on 13th April, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Semiu Adeniran is a professional statistician of repute with bias for Demography and Social Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>He has over three decades of statistical hands-on experience garnered from various local and international institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Until his appointment, Mr Semiu was the Director of Demographic and Household Statistics at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhar has approved the appointment of Mr. 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 was contained in a statement on Friday issued by Sufuyan Ojeifo, Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of State, Budget and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,9059],"class_list":["post-448440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-nbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/448289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}