BY AKINWALE YEKEEN


President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment and reappointment of chairpersons of boards and chief executive officers of agencies under the ministry of health and social welfare.

In a statement on Thursday by Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, Tinubu approved the appointment of Mansur Kabir as the chairman of board of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

He also reappointed Mojisola Adeyeye as the director-general (DG) of the agency and appointed Olajide Idris as the DG of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

More to follow…

The Cable




Some of the CEOs were reappointed for another term.

By Press Release


PRESIDENT TINUBU APPROVES LEADERSHIP CHANGES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE SECTOR

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, President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment and reappointment of the following Board Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare:


(1) National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC):

Board Chairperson: Mansur Kabir

Chief Executive Officer: Moji Adeyeye


(2) National Blood Service Commission (NBSC):

Board Chairperson: Abba Zubairu

Chief Executive Officer: Saleh Yuguda


(3) Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN):

Board Chairperson: Afolabi Lesi

Chief Executive Officer: Fatima Kyari


(4) Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN):

Board Chairperson: Wasilat Giwa

Chief Executive Officer: Ibrahim Ahmed


(5) Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN):

Board Chairperson: Babajide Salako

Chief Executive Officer: Tosan Erhabor


(6) Moddibo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola (MAUTH): Chief Medical Director / CEO: Adamu G. Bakari


(7) Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua (ISTH): Chief Medical Director / CEO: Reuben Eifediyi

Futhermore, as part of efforts to bolster the resiliency of Nigeria’s public health surveillance and security architecture, President Bola Tinubu approved the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to assume office on February 19, 2024:

(8 ) Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC): Director-General / CEO: Olajide Idris

Moreover, it is pertinent to note that President Tinubu has painstakingly considered the wealth of experience of each qualified and aforementioned Nigerian, who will be tasked with driving his Renewed Hope Agenda in the sector, some details of which include the following:

New NCDC Director-General/CEO, 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, Abba Zubairu, PhD, 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, 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.

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. Owing to the high cost of historical underperformance in the sector, the President anticipates the immediate and effective implementation of new policy frameworks to reposition the sector under the able leadership of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate.

Ajuri Ngelale

Special Adviser to the President

(Media & Publicity)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/668641-tinubu-appoints-ceos-for-majo-health-agencies-nafdac-ncdc-others-affected.html

We ride till DAWN!!....

Yoruba government

This is serious

Always appointing Efulefu's.

Imagine appointing a charge and bail lawyer as minister of aviation.

Part time Olosho as minister of Humanitarian affairs.

Lets not talk about Dele Alake, a journalist as minister of Solid Minerals Development Ministry.

Then the Smeagol looking Akantant Cardoso as CBN governor.

Make una continue una lopsided appointment.

The partnership is indeed working and too big for us all to see.

Na just to dey appoint incompetent tribal people e sabi

After his tenure yorubas should take a break from our national space, they collectively killed this country

Buhari govt full of abokis did better

Paddy paddy government if you know u know

👀

Appointment no dey finish for this tenure.. Lol

Bleep

Mhen

Nigaa has nothing to say

Ogiame:
Always appointing Efulefu's.

Imagine appointing a charge and bail lawyer as minister of aviation.

Part time Olosho as minister of Humanitarian affairs.

Let's not talk of Wale Edun who's handling Mines

Then the Smeagol looking Akantant Cardoso as CBN governor.

you forgot to add Dele Alake, a journalist as minister of Solid Minerals Development Ministry.

Not surprised
And one still wonders why this regime seems failed even before starting. Installing strictly your tribesmen even when they can't handle it.

Ogiame:
Always appointing Efulefu's.

Imagine appointing a charge and bail lawyer as minister of aviation.

Part time Olosho as minister of Humanitarian affairs.

Let's not talk of Wale Edun who's handling Mines

Then the Smeagol looking Akantant Cardoso as CBN governor.

Wale Edu handling mines

Chai!

Who did this to you laidis?

another nonsense list, man just pack Yoruba and North full there

Chai! Tinubu dey F up...I never believed he woukd be this tribal

Isokiscool:
Yoruba government

NzogbuNzogbu:
Na just to dey appoint incompetent tribal people e sabi

After his tenure yorubas should take a break from our national space, they collectively killed this country

Buhari govt full of abokis did better

mobileboy:
another nonsense list, man just pack Yoruba and North full there

You guys are wicked oo

Na una talk say Yorubas are hungry and you all are Billionaires who don't need government money.

Let him give our people jobs na so that we won't starve to death.




Meanwhile, the NAFDAC woman was reappointed. It's not a totally fresh appointment.

To be honest, I am not pleased with the overall composition. No fair representation here. It doesn't look balanced at all

lexy2014:


you forgot to add Dele Alake, a journalist as minister of Solid Minerals Development Ministry.

Thank you my brother

L

Nepotism

Where's federal character in these appointments?

Tjra:




You guys are wicked oo

Na una talk say Yorubas are hungry and you all are Billionaires who don't need government money.

Let him give our people jobs na so that we won't starve to death.

I'm pure Yoruba and I hated Buhari for this same nepotism nonsense, it won't take us anywhere

This same people don't try nepotism with their own doctors or even businesses

No balancing
Nepotism at it's peak

Lagos builder on the beat

However, e bin pa wa o

$>1.7k

U want appointment but uno wan support d government.... U fit allow ur sworn enemy to dey cook food for u?

Islie:


More to follow…

The Cable




Some of the CEOs were reappointed for another term.




https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/668641-tinubu-appoints-ceos-for-majo-health-agencies-nafdac-ncdc-others-affected.html

Political appointments plenty for Nigeria o

This country is a tragedy waiting to happen...shame to APC for taking nepotism to a new height,courtesy of Buhari and Tinubu.They are an embarrasment to the black world.