Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

FROM CONUNDRUMS AND CONTRADICTIONS TO COHERENCE AND CONSISTENCY: DATA AND POLICIES FOR NIGERIA DEVELOPMENT

I am truly honored, indeed humbled, to have been asked to give the 2019 Economics Department, Annual Public Lecture of the University of Lagos, an institution recognized for facilitating insightful discussions on a wide array of national and global issues. I consider it a privilege not only because of my professional responsibility as Statistician-General of the Federation/CEO of the National Bureau of Statistics, but also because of the eminent speakers that have stood at this podium in the past. As a student of economics myself, it affords me the rare opportunity to interact with my communit…