President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the reappointment of Professor Moji Adeyeye as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The President also approved the appointment of Dr. Mansur Kabir as the Chairman Board of NAFDAC.
Other Chief Executive Officers appointed under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare are Professor Abba Zubairu as the Board Chairperson National Blood Service Commission (NBSC) and Dr. Saleh Yuguda as the Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Olajide Idris was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Disease Control.
Also appointed to serve as the Board Chairperson of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) are Professor Afolabi Lesi and Dr. Fatima Kya as Chief Executive Officer.
Others are Wasilat Giwa the Board Chairperson of the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) and Pharm. Ibrahim Ahmed and Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Babajide Salako is to serve as the Board Chairperson of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) and Dr. Tosan Erhabor as the Chief Executive Officer of the agency.
Moddibo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola (MAUTH): Chief Medical Director / CEO: Prof. Adamu G. Bakari
Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua (ISTH): Chief Medical Director / CEO: Prof. Reuben Eifediyi
New NCDC Director-General/CEO, Dr. Olajide Idris, received his MBBS degree from the University of Lagos’ College of Medicine, after which he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from the Ivy League’s Yale University in Connecticut, United States of America. He would go on to serve as the Commissioner of Health in Lagos State from 2007 to 2019, after serving as the Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Ministry of Health from 1999 to 2007.
New NBSC Chairperson, Prof. Abba Zubairu, Ph.D., has served as the Medical Director of the world-leading Mayo Clinic in the United States of America, following a long career in which he served as a Resident Doctor at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Hospital as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, and undertook a Clinical Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School’s Transfusion Medicine Programme during which he obtained a Master’s degree in Clinical Science at the same institution.
New MDCN CEO, Dr. Fatima Kyari, PhD, is a renowned ophthalmologist and Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Medicine (FNAMed) who obtained an MBBS degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, after which she obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before she obtained a Doctorate degree in Public Health from the same institution.
A statement signed by the President’s Spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale stated that “In furtherance of his determination to bring world-class standards to Nigerian public health administration and to manifest his commitment to deliver affordable and quality care to all Nigerians under governance and regulatory frameworks commensurate with international best practice.
“The President expects that the new leadership across this critical human development sector will substantially raise the standards of healthcare service delivery for the exclusive benefit of all strata of the Nigerian population as his administration is committed to implementing a whole-of-government approach to transforming the sector to enhance the aggregate national quality of life and productivity”, Ngelale added.
Dominica Nwabufo
