President Buhari
According to an exclusive report by TheCable News,
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed new chief executives for five
health agencies, with two coming from the United States of America and
another from the United Kingdom.
The new appointees from the presidency are;
1. Echezona Ezeanolue - a professor of paediatrics and public
health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who will head the
National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA)
2. Usman Yusuf - a professor of paediatrics at St. Jude Research
Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, who becomes the executive secretary of
the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
3. Aliyu Hussein - a consultant in microbiology and infectious
diseases at Cambridge University, UK, will head the National Agency for
the Control of Aids (NACA).
4. Chikwe Ihekweazu - a public health consultant doctor and the
managing partner at EpiAfric, a public health consultancy firm that
focuses on Africa, will head the Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
5. Babatunde Lawal Salako - a professor and current provost of the
College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan, will be chief executive
of the Nigerian Institute for Medical Research (NIMR).
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