Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, predecessor of the current Nigerian health minister has been appointed to head the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the agency announced recently.
Professor Osotimehin was serving as provost of the College of Medicine until his new appointment. He takes over from Dr Thoraya Obaid, a Saudi Arabian anthropologist whose tenure comes to an end on the 31st of December
Before his appointment as Minister of Health, Prof Osotimehin had served as Director of the National Aids Control Agency (NACA) where he was credite with ensuring the embedding of the AIDS control strategy at state and local government levels. We blogged about his appointment as Minister of Health here and a Nigerian news magazine reported on his tenure at NACA here
One of his strengths was his diplomacy and ability to listen to different groups and individuals
We wish him well in his new assignment and hope that he will make Nigeria proud
2 comments:
I quite agree with description of Professor being diplomatic and able to mix with different category of people. Did not know him personally, but I worked for NMA as a development worker and he was highly regarded by the executives I served under. It was during his tenure that the approval of salary increment for Medical Doctors was endorsed. The doctors in NMA worked tirelessly to follow him up. I wish him all the best and pray that he continues to advocate for health programmes. Being a part of UNFPA is an opportunity for his excellency to influence concise and sincere population reports that will inform programming in the dev sector and how funding is being spent. Again all the best Sir.
where was he provost?
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