President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa as the new Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Shehu said Adetifa would take over from Chikwe Ihekweazu, who had been given an appointment at the World Health Organisation (WHO) as Assistant Director General of the global body.
Ihekweazu had been NCDC DG since 2016 when Buhari appointed him.
Last week, the WHO appointed him as an assistant Director-General.
In an official letter addressed to Ihekweazu, WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said the Nigerian was the deputy in charge of health emergency intelligence at the global health organisation.
He is to assume the office on November 1, 2021, and will be in charge of WHO’s pandemic and epidemic response hub in Berlin, Germany.
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