President Bola Tinubu has named Dr. Temitope Ilori as the next Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, making her the first female NACA DG.
On February 22, 2024, Ilori, the first woman to be selected Director-General of the organization, started her four-year tenure.
Toyin Aderibigbe, Head of NACA’s Public Relations and Protocol, revealed that Dr. Gambo Aliyu, the agency’s DG from June 2019 to February 2024, was replaced by Ilori.
Dr. Ilori held positions as a Consultant Family Physician in the Department of Family Medicine at University College Hospital, Ibadan, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Ibadan prior to her appointment.
The statement was said as follows:
“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, Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS, and Osun State Technical Working Group on Immunization.”
