President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced Chikwe Ihekweazu with Ifedayo Adetifa as Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Ihekweazu was recently appointed as an Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in charge of health emergency intelligence.
Adetifa is a paediatrician and infectious diseases epidemiologist who obtained his first degree from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State.
His profile monitored on the website of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reads: “I received my undergraduate medical training at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria and completed residency training in Paedetraitics at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Asaba, Lagos, Nigeria for which I was awarded the Fellowship of the West Africa College of Phisians in Paediatrics.
In a statement released by Garba Shehu, the Presidential spokesperson states that Adetiba has also been named a member of the health sector reform committee to be chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
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