JUST IN: President Buhari makes five new appointments

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has on July 29 appointed five new heads of the strategic institutions in Nigeria.

This was contained in a statement of presidential personal assistant on new media Bashir Ahmad.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of heads of five strategic health institutions in the country.

READ: Buhari Sacks Health Agencies DGs

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 29, 2016

The heads are: the Centre for Disease Control, National Agency for the Control of Aids, the Nigerian Institute for Medical Research.

Others are, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and National Health Insurance Scheme.

The new appointees are:

NIMR – Prof Babatunde Salami

NACA – Dr Sani Aliyu

NHIS – Prof Usman Yusuf

NPHCDA – Prof Echezona Ezeanolue

CDC – Dr Chikwe Andreas Ihekweazu

All the five appointments have already taken effect.

1. The head of the CDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, was the managing partner at EpiAfric, a public health consultancy firm that focuses on Africa.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 29, 2016

2. The head of the NACA, Dr Sani Aliyu was a consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Cambridge University, UK.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 29, 2016

3. The head of the NIMR, Prof. Babatunde Salako was the Provost, College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan before his new appointment.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 29, 2016

4. The head of the NPHCDA, Echezona Ezeanolue was a professor of Paediatrics and Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 29, 2016

5. The head of the NHIS, Prof. Usman Yusuf, was a professor of Paediatrics at St. Jude Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 29, 2016

The latest president’s appointments caused outrage among Nigerians over suggestions that Buhari is favouring people from the Northern Nigeria.

His critics have characterized his appointments as extremely lopsided, lacking in gender balance and regional equity.

However, the presidency denied such accusations.

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