President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr. Temitope Ilori, the daughter of ex-Osun state Governor and the first interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande, as the new and first female Director-General of the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA). Dr. Ilori was also the Commissioner for Health from 2011 to 2014 during the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as governor of Osun State. The appointment is contained in a statement by the Head of Public Relations and Protocol of NACA, Toyin Aderibigbe, on Thursday.
Osun Defender reports that Dr. Ilori is the first female to be appointed the Director-General of the agency beginning her initial term of four years on February 22, 2024. She took over from her predecessor, Dr Gambo Aliyu, who was the DG of the agency from June 2019 till February 2024.
Up until 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.
“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.
“She has been involved in policy formulation and strategic development. She was a Commissioner for Health, Osun State, Nigeria from 2011 to 2014 and Chairperson, of Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS, and Osun State Technical Working Group on Immunization,” the statement noted.
