Tinubu Appoints Temitope Ilori As New NACA DG

President Bola Tinubu has chosen Dr. Temitope Ilori as Director-General of the National Agency for AIDS Control (NACA) for a four-year tenure.

Ajuri Ngelale, President Tinubu’s media aide, confirmed the appointment in a statement on Thursday.

Dr. Ilori is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Ibadan and a consulting family physician at University College Hospital in Ibadan.

She earned her MBBS degree from the University of Ibadan and completed her residency training at the University College Hospital in Ibadan.

She is a fellow of the Faculty of Family Medicine, West African College of Physicians, and won the A.O. Senbanjo Prize in 2012. She is also an associate fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN).

Dr. Ilori has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Ibadan, and she is a PhD fellow in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has co-authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

She served as the Commissioner for Health in Osun State from 2011 to 2014 and Chairperson of the Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS (O-SACA).

Ngelale said the President expects the new Director-General to bring her wealth of experience and expertise into this seminal role to achieve the mandate of NACA which includes the coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the implementation of the Strategic National Plan for the control of HIV/AIDS/STDs, as well as the mobilization of resources for an effective and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS/STDs.