Tinubu Appoints Bisi Akande Daughter as Director-General of NACA

Tinubu Appoints Bisi Akande Daughter as Director-General of NACA

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Dr. Temitope Ilori as the new Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA).

Ilori is the daughter of a former Governor of Osun State and the first interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande.

She officially assumed her role on February 22, 2024, for an initial term of four years, succeeding Dr. Gambo Aliyu, who served as DG from June 2019 until February 2024.

The announcement was made by Toyin Aderibigbe, the Head of Public Relations and Protocol of NACA, in a press statement released today.

According to the statement, before her appointment, 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, Nigeria.