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President Bola Tinubu has appointed Temitope Ilori as the new director-general (DG) of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA).

In a statement on Thursday, Toyin Aderibigbe, NACA head of public relations, said Ilori’s initial term of four years began on February 22.

She takes over from Gambo Aliyu, who was the DG of the agency, from June 2019 till February 2024.

Ilori is the first female to be appointed as the director-general of the agency.

“Up until her appointment, Dr. Ilori was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Ibadan, and a Consultant Family Physician in the Department of Family Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan,” the statement reads.

“Dr Ilori obtained her MBBS degree from the University of Ibadan and had her residency training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. She graduated as the best graduating Fellow of the Faculty of Family Medicine, West African College of Physicians in April 2012 winning the A.O. Senbanjo Prize. She is also an Associate Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

“Dr Ilori has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa sponsored by the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa.

“Her areas of research interest include Primary Care, Immunization, Public Health Nutrition, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Women’s and Child’s Health. She is a prolific researcher who has co-authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

“She has been involved in policy formulation and strategic development. She was a Commissioner for Health, Osun State, Nigeria from 2011 to 2014 and Chairperson, Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS, and Osun State Technical Working Group on Immunization.”

The president also approved the relocation of NACA to the ministry of health and social welfare.

NACA was previously domiciled in the office of the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF).

Tinubu said the relocation of NACA to the ministry of health and social welfare is to foster synergy and enhance collaboration in pursuit of the nation’s goal to achieve the 95-95-95 pathway for ending the AIDS epidemic.

https://www.thecable.ng/tinubu-appoints-temitope-ilori-as-first-female-dg-of-naca-relocates-agency-to-health-ministry/amp

Awon lokan

Tinubu can not shy away from being recklessly nepotistic however i must give it to the woman appointed,she is duely qualified to handle NACA.Her resume says it all...congrats！

What a nonsense. It's only people from the west that are qualified enough to be appointed into juicy ministries, departments and agencies. Yorubatocracy is what I called this one.

After the charade by Southern Governors from Enugu to Asaba to Lagos in the name of Southern Presidency 😂.

Now it has been microzoned to South West leaving out the rest of the South😂.

My people will always say.

"Na who them cheat, don lose"😂😂.

Southern Presidency my balls.😂😂😂.

longetivity:
Awa lokan

As e dey sweet us, e dey pain dem... Awa lokan...
Somebody shout hallelujah.

The woman is eminently qualified for the job!

Only people who do care for the long term stability and prosperity of Nigeria, will applaud these sectional appointments. There will be a northern president at some point in the future who will do the same thing. Ultimately it is the nation that suffers

It has favored her and her family

Waiting for the names of NL APC dundees to pop up abi their own na to dey chop corn?

kayusely70:
The woman is eminently qualified for the job!

True though.... nepotism apart

She got this job on merit and not because she is Yoruba. This is pure meritocracy being practiced.

AIDS doesn't discriminate against tribe or religion o so we need competent patriotic Nigerians to run the agency, regardless of where they come from in Nigeria. Thank God the Minister of Health is a patriotic Nigerian of Northern extraction who recommended her for the job.

God bless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and may God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

Nepotism pro max

Appointment on merit

From he academic credentials
she merited the positions

Take 1, oya pick 2

Don't these their appointments ever end?

FreeStuffsNG:
She got this job on merit and not because she is Yoruba.
This is pure meritocracy being practiced. AIDS doesn't discriminate against tribe or religion o so we need competent patriotic Nigerians to run the agency, regardless of where they come from in Nigeria.
God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

So for a multi ethnic diverse Nigeria, only Yorubas have the monopoly of meritocracy?

Talking of Merit, was the vacancy d? Was an interview or exams held to make her come tops to be seen as meritocracy?

Yorubanization

.

Yoruba

Tempting resume!

Man wasn't playing when he said Yoruba lokan.... Buhari went over the roof with northern appointments... Almost all agencies for Abuja na northerners full am.....tinubu no fold oh... Keep it coming

Ok

By all standard she deserved it. We saw how the agulu dullard and his people are trying in vain to sabotage the government.

longetivity:
Awa lokan

Shegeville in d making

FreeStuffsNG:
She got this job on merit and not because she is Yoruba.
This is pure meritocracy being practiced. AIDS doesn't discriminate against tribe or religion o so we need competent patriotic Nigerians to run the agency, regardless of where they come from in Nigeria.
God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

Keep lying to yourself. So, you mean there are no other qualified persons from other parts of Nigeria. She may be qualified just as we have other qualified people everywhere in the country, but what got her this job was exclusively because she's a Yoruba. Pure Nepotism!

Jagaban, the slave to the caliphate and slayer of iPOB.

He's continuing from where his master Buhari stopped.

Not surprise...

OVB123:
What a nonsense. It's only people from the west that are qualified enough to be appointed into juicy ministries, departments and agencies. Yorubatocracy is what I called this one.

He said, he will continue from where buhari stopped. ..

OVB123:
What a nonsense. It's only people from the west that are qualified enough to be appointed into juicy ministries, departments and agencies. Yorubatocracy is what I called this one.

If them appoint your kinsman now, you go still complain say na Hiv/Aids ministry them see to give your people.

OVB123:
What a nonsense. It's only people from the west that are qualified enough to be appointed into juicy ministries, departments and agencies. Yorubatocracy is what I called this one.

if e easy

U igbos should try get it

DonXavi:
Keep lying to yourself. So, you mean there are no other qualified persons from other parts of Nigeria. She may be qualified just as we have other qualified people everywhere in the country, but what got her this job was exclusively because she's a Yoruba. Pure Nepotism!

What's stopping you from sending the names of those qualified people to Tinubu.

She simply got the job on merit. Shikena

AustineE1:
Tinubu can not shy away from being recklessly nepotistic however i must give it to the woman appointed,she is duely qualified to handle NACA.Her resume says it all...congrats！

At least it's way better than the useless buhari that was nepotistic and very stupid at it.....