President Bola Tinubu on Thursday appointed Dr. Temitope Ilori as the new Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), News About Nigeria reports.
The appointment was contained in a statement by the agency’s Head of Public Relations and Protocol, Toyin Aderibigbe.
According to the statement, Ilori was appointed as the agency’s first female Director-General, and her four-year term began on February 22, 2024.
Before 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.
She also worked as the Commissioner for Health, in Osun State, from 2011 to 2014 and as Chairperson of, the Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS.
The new NACA boss has also been involved in policy formulation and strategic development, while she has also worked at the Osun State Technical Working Group on Immunisation.
The statement details her background: “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.”
