President Bola Tinubu has picked a new Director-General for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Olajide Idris.
Idris, who is expected to assume office on February 19, 2024, replaced Prof. Ifedayo Adetifa, the immediate past DG.
Tinubu also reappointed the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Prof. Moji Adeyeye.
Also, Dr. Mansur Kabir was appointed as the new Chairman of the board of NAFDAC.
Both agencies are under the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale revealed this on Thursday in Abuja.
The President also approved the appointment and reappointment of board chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers for eight agencies under the ministry.
They are Prof. Abba Zubairu and Dr. Saleh Yuguda as board chairperson and CEO for the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC); Prof. Afolabi Lesi and Dr. Fatima Kyari as board chairperson and CEO for the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN); Wasilat Giwa and Ibrahim Ahmed as board chairperson and CEO for the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria; and Dr. Babajide Salako and Dr. Tosan Erhabor as board chairperson and CEO of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria respectively.
The President appointed Prof. Adamu Bakari as Chief Medical Director of Moddibo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola, Adamawa State, and Prof. Reuben Eifediyi as CMD of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State.
He noted that the appointments are in furtherance of his determination to bring world-class standards to Nigerian public health administration and his commitment to deliver affordable and quality care to all Nigerians under governance and regulatory frameworks commensurate with international best practice.
Tinubu informed that Idris received his MBBS degree from the University of Lagos’ College of Medicine, after which he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Ivy League’s Yale University in Connecticut, United States of America.
He served as the Commissioner for Health in Lagos State from 2007 to 2019, having served as the Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Ministry of Health from 1999 to 2007.
The new NBSC chairperson, Prof. Abba Zubairu had served as the Medical Director of 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 Hospital as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.
He undertook 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.
The new MDCN CEO, Kyari is an Ophthalmologist and Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Medicine. He obtained an MBBS degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, after which she bagged a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She also obtained a Doctorate in Public Health from the same institution.
Ngelale said that the President expected the new leadership to substantially raise the standards of healthcare service delivery for the exclusive benefit of all strata of the Nigerian population.
Due to the high cost of historical underperformance in the health sector, the President anticipated the immediate and effective implementation of new policy frameworks to reposition the sector under the leadership of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Muhammad Pate.
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